A few years ago, DarkMatter2525 did an excellent video "Worse than the Wolf". He talks the parable of the fish, wheat and the sheep. Definitely worth watching if you haven't seen it!
Shearing The Sheep doesn't hurt the sheep. It's like when we go to The Barber to get our hair cut. IT'S COMPLETELY PAINLESS!!!! In fact if you don't shear them they grow so much wool that they eventually can't move and they're either eaten by wild predators, they starve because they can't move in order to graze or the weight of their own wool crushes them. If you shear sheep they're wool grows back.
@@thing1thing2themediamaniac43 the shepherd doesn't do anything for altruistic reasons. The shepherd is getting something. Food or profit. Get used for no other reason as a means to an end. Preachers have taken this training to heart and they follow their god's example. Fleece them all and eat up!
@Moralatheist101 There are Vegeterian Shepherds who raise sheep merely for their wool But you are correct I stand by my earlier point Shearing The Sheep doesn't hurt them It helps them.
On the subject of the cross, Bill Hicks said something like, "Why is the cross a symbol of Christianity? When Christ comes back do you think he ever wants to see a f'n cross again? It's like someone showing their rifle pendant to Jackie Onassis and saying, 'Just thinking, of John, Jackie!'".
Why not use the Morning Star as Jesus Christ's symbol? In the Bible, he becomes it when he is resurrected and transformed. Is it because it sounds like he is Lucifer and the Devil transformed as an angel of light? Could it be that the Church prefers to use the cross because it is subliminal messaging? Do they want you as broken down as he was in the cross, so they can retain you as long as possible in the Church caught up in their web of lies?
Lol my bible is full of notes from secular bible study. Someday someone will think I'm spiritual until they look closer and see "this god is a fucking monster" 😂
"Someday someone will think I'm spiritual until they look closer and see 'this god is a fucking monster"--- Indeed. "I have said, ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High" (Psalm 82)
@andrewferg8737 Yes, the "Most High" refers to the head Canaanite god El (fictional) who Yahweh (fictional) was later conflated with. Scholarship below. --------------------------------------------------------- According to the general consensus of scholarship *(even critical Christian scholars),* YHWH was originally incorporated into the Canaanite pantheon as a son of the Canaanite high god El before inheriting the top spot in the pantheon and El's wife Athirat (Asherah) before religious reforms "divorced" them. El's pantheon in Ugarit (modern day Ras Shamra in Syria) is called the *Elohim,* literally the plural of El. Interestingly, the Biblical god is also referred to numerous times as Elohim. If you want to see if El is fictional, just read his mythology in the Ugaritic/Canaanite texts. "The mysterious Ugaritic text Shachar and Shalim tells how (perhaps near the beginning of all things) *El* came to shores of the sea and saw two women who bobbed up and down. *El* was sexually aroused and took the two with him, killed a bird by throwing a staff at it, and roasted it over a fire. He asked the women to tell him when the bird was fully cooked, and to then address him either as husband or as father, for he would thenceforward behave to them as they called him. They saluted him as husband. He then lay with them, and they gave birth to Shachar ("Dawn") and Shalim ("Dusk"). Again *El* lay with his wives and the wives gave birth to "the gracious gods", "cleavers of the sea", "children of the sea". The names of these wives are not explicitly provided, but some confusing rubrics at the beginning of the account mention the goddess *Athirat (Asherah),* who is otherwise *El's* chief wife, and the goddess Raḥmayyu ("the one of the womb"), otherwise unknown." *"First, a god named El predates the arrival of the Israelites into Syria-Palestine.* Biblical usage shows El was not just a generic noun, but often a proper name for Israel’s God (e.g., Gen 33:20: “El, the God of Israel”)." "I should add here that it is very clear from the grammar that the noun nachalah in v. 9 should be translated “inheritance.” *Yahweh receives Israel as his “inheritance” (nachalah), just as the other sons of El received their nations as their inheritance (nachal, v. 8).* With this verb, especially in the Hiphil, the object is always what is being given as an inheritance. Thus, Israel is given to Yahweh as his inheritance. ((Here I’m indebted to Dan McClellan.)) It would make no sense for Elyon to give himself an inheritance. Moreover, as I’ve argued elsewhere, it is not just the Gentile nations that are divided up according to the number of the *sons of El.* It is all of humankind, i.e., “the sons of Adam.” This clearly includes Israel. And the sons of Adam are not divided up according to the number of the *sons of El,* plus one (i.e., plus Elyon). They are divided up, according to the text, *solely* according to the number of the *sons of El.* *Thus, that Yahweh receives Israel as his inheritance makes Yahweh one of the sons of El mentioned in v. 8. Any other construal of the text would constitute its rewriting.* A Sumerian hymn speaks to the goddess: “Nanshe, your divine powers are not matched by any other divine powers.” *Does this mean that Nanshe was the high goddess, that there were no gods above her? No, it does not.* Nanshe was the daughter of Enki, the high god. *In Sumerian mythology, as with Ugaritic, Israelite, Babylonian, and others, in the ancient past, the high god (Enki, in this case) divided up the world and assigned his children certain domains.* Nanshe was given a limited domain (the modern Persian Gulf) and was tasked with maintaining social justice there. *This is exactly what we see in Deuteronomy 32 with Yahweh. Yahweh is given a limited domain (Israel) and is given authority over his people, to punish them, as well as to protect and defend them against foreign enemies.* That Yahweh, like Nanshe, is said to have incomparable divine power *does not* mean that he is not subordinate to the high god who gave him his domain. *It is also of note that Nanshe, like Baal, Yahweh, and so many other deities, evolved over time. Her domain increased, and she was promoted in the pantheon (although she never became the high goddess)."* *"The Most Heiser: Yahweh and Elyon in Psalm 82 and Deuteronomy 32 - Religion at the Margins"* based on the *majority scholarly consensus.* (Written by Thom Stark who is a Christian) *"Michael Heiser: A Unique Species? - Religion at the Margins"* (A second response to Michael Heiser) *"Excerpt from “Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan” by John Day - Lehi's Library."* *"The Table of Nations: The Geography of the World in Genesis 10"* - TheTorah.com (Excluding the short narrative on Nimrod (vv. 8-12), *which appears to be a later addition,* Genesis 10 contains *70* names of nations or cities, a number that was symbolic of totality. Similarly, the descendants of Jacob were *70* in number (Gen 46:37; Exod 1:5), *as were the sons of the supreme Canaanite god El, with whom YHWH became equated.)* *"Polytheism and Ancient Israel’s Canaanite Heritage. Part V | theyellowdart"* (Of course, much of this [i.e., that Israel worshiped El and Asherah alongside YHWH] is really to be expected given that recent syntheses of the *archaeological, cultural, and literary data* pertaining to the emergence of the nation of Israel in the Levant *show that most of the people who would eventually compose this group were originally Canaanite. As the Hebrew Bible notes, the Hebrew language itself is a Canaanite language, literally the “lip of Canaan” (שְׂפַת כְּנַעַן; Is. **19:18**), and so it cannot often be distinguished by modern scholars from other Canaanite inscriptions on purely linguistic grounds.)* *"Ugarit - New World Encyclopedia"* (Ugaritic religion centered on the chief god, Ilu or El, whose titles included "Father of mankind" and "Creator of the creation." The Court of El was referred to as the (plural) 'lhm or ***Elohim,*** a word ***later used by the biblical writers to describe the Hebrew deity*** and translated into English as "God," in the singular. El, which was ***also the name of the God of Abraham,*** was described as an aged deity with white hair, seated on a throne.) *"Mark Smith: Yahweh as El’s Son & Yahweh’s Ascendency - Lehi's Library"* (Mark Smith is a Catholic) *"God, Gods, and Sons (and Daughters) of God in the Hebrew Bible. Part III | theyellowdart"* *"02 | December | 2009 | Daniel O. McClellan - Psalm 82"* (Daniel McClellan is a Mormon) *"Elohim | Daniel O. McClellan"* (Refer to the article "Angels and Demons (and Michael Heiser)") *"God's Wife Edited Out of the Bible - Almost."* (Pay attention to whose wife Asherah (Athirat) is in the Ugaritic/Canaanite texts and how she became the wife of YHWH/Yahweh) *"Yahweh's Divorce from the Goddess Asherah in the Garden of Eden - Mythology Matters."* *"Asherah, God's Wife in Ancient Israel. Part IV - theyellowdart"* *"The Gates of Ishtar - El, was the original god of the bible."* *"The Gates of Ishtar - Anath in the Elephantine Papyri"* (In addition to Asherah (Athirat) being the consort of Yahweh, it appears some Israelites also viewed the Canaanite goddess Anat(h) as Yahweh's consort) *"Canaanite Religion - New World Encyclopedia"* (Refer to the section "Relationship to Biblical Religion") *"The Syncretization of Yahweh and El : reddit/AcademicBiblical"* (For a good summary of all of the above articles) Watch Professor Christine Hayes who lectures on the Hebrew Bible at Yale University. Watch lecture 2 from 40:40 to 41:50 minutes, lecture 7 from 30:00 minutes onwards, lecture 8 from 12:00 to 17:30 minutes and lecture 12 from 27:40 minutes onwards. Watch *"Pagan Origins of Judaism"* by Sigalius Myricantur and read the description in the video to see the scholarship the video is based on. Watch *"How Monotheism Evolved"* by Sigalius Myricantur and watch up to at least 21:40. Watch *"Atheism - A History of God (The Polytheistic Origins of Christianity and Judaism)"* (By a former theist) Watch *"The Origins of Yahweh"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica.
@AnthoniePerez.94 Bro you need to listen to more than 30 seconds of literally any one of Mindshift's videos. When I look at the "evils of the world" I think, "At least we don't live beholden to a so-called god that endorses slavery, genocide, rape, and child marriage." If that's your "just judge" then, respectfully... go pluck yourself.
"as presented in the Bible"--- As a youth, I happened upon my older sister's medical textbook one day. The volume was opened, much to my horror and dismay, to a full-color plate depicting a facial avulsion. I began flipping through the book questioning within myself what on earth it was that my sister had been reading all this time. Later of course, I came to learn the purpose of that text, and my sister's noble aspirations in studying it so assiduously. I had, of course, confused description with prescription.
If you are strong in faith, you don't need apologists or theologians. The problem is most people are not that strong in faith Not to mention you don't really need to know that much theology to be saved
4:36 I think I’ve made this comment before but I was at mass once and the homily was about pagan rituals and how they could never work because Jesus is the only one that saves. The priest went on and on about it and my mother kept commenting on how all those rituals the ‘evil pagans and idol worshippers’ did were powerless. Then the homily ended, the church sang feverishly about being washed in the blood of a Jesus and the priest said some magic words to turn bread into a dead guys body. I probably looked so shocked sitting there thinking ‘Wait a minute, this is just another messed up ritual!’
Back when I was Catholic I thought that that stuff was obviously symbolic, for example I didn't know that a baptism was supposed to change anything real, I though of it as a way to give a name to the kid and welcome it in the family, it's after became an Atheist that I discovered that the Catholic Church takes all that very seriously.
Ironically I have heard of pagan rituals working in modern time. I forgot where it was, but some people in Thailand? Maybe? Did a mock animal sacrifice ritual with a stuffed animal to bring rain and afterwards it began to rain.
I went to Catholic schools, K-12 and at one point there was a surprisingly popular song sung at mass. It got taken out for being “too pagan”, despite- or maybe because- its being a favorite with the students.
When I was a Christian I used to post up photos of the sunset. When they were extra beautiful I would claim it was God's paintbrush. I never posted photos of a hurricane or tornado as Gods paintbrush. That's how easy it is to believe when you only see the world through Faith Goggles.
Actually, it was the pain of life that caused me to seek for God. Why is there pain in the world? If you believe evolution, that the universe is a cruel prankster, meting out pain your entire life, then you die, then you will miss the cure. Atheists mock the concept of hell, but it is the pain of the Cross that is the only solution to human suffering. Christ died on a Cross so that we may know Him. Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
@@kenshiloh Okay... But how do we know you aren't just selling snake-oil "panacea" And also, why did God make it that way? He could've just cured everyone. Apparently not everyone deserves the cure, but think about it. When you strip everyone of their bodily forms and their mental training, they are all the same. Consciousness. And why would you prejudice raw consciousness based on the individual that it inhabits, and how it turns out - moral or misaligned? I think that's very unfair. Is desert even a coherent concept in the first place when it comes to anything other than pragmatic treatment for the sake of others? I think it collapses when you have the power to ensure that everybody can not be a problem for anybody. God's convoluted system is very weird to me.
@@kenshilohAnd if you believe in a creation we have a cruel creator. Jesus dies on the cross 2,000 years ago and pain and suffering is still with us. I do not see your point. Again, these are just things you believe but upon investigation it is easily refuted.
@@leroyh8977 I am wondering, given the difficulty of suffering, how do you account for people like me? For example, last week, I spent 2 or 3 days with a pretty bad toothache (probably about 8 on a scale of 10). It hurt! Yet, every day, I was rejoicing in Christ my Savior. Moreover, if you would see me on my deathbed (hopefully, not until many years to come), I will be smiling. I know Christ. He bore the Cross, but I have the honor, the privilege, of bearing my own (small 'c') cross. I rejoice in my sufferings, as they bring me closer to Christ. In 100 years, I will be pain-free, living a life that you cannot even imagine. Yet, where will you be in 100 years? It will either be having a blast in heaven or in suffering that is really, really bad in hell. God is love. Do yourself a favor and dwell on that thought: people are corrupt, but God is love. What would eternity without love look like? How could it be good? Yet, Christ died on a Cross so that you may bear your cross, that you may know Him, to love Him, to walk with Him, to overcome life's greatest pains and challenges with joy and singing. Christ died on a Cross so that you may know and love Him into eternity! If you doubt what I am saying, I encourage you to check out my buddy, Richard Wurmbrand on UA-cam. He was tortured for his faith, yet had the overwhelming love and joy of God to sustain him. If you really want to know the truth about suffering, start with my buddy Richard. He and his wife, Sabina, were at my church and we just love them to pieces. Of course, that was years ago and it is all joy in heavens for Richard and Sabina now! I hope to see you there! Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
My favorite scene from "American Gods" is when a Germanic goddess is holding an Easter celebration and 10 different versions of Jesus show up. There's black Baptist Jesus, Pentecostal, Episcopal, Methodist, etc.
"henceforth know we no man according to the flesh; yea, though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now henceforth we know Him so no more" (2 Corinthians 5)
@@andrewferg8737 We can only take God/Jesus Christ as he is. To some (believers - true born-again believers) he is a sweet-smelling savor, to others (unbelievers - the lost) he is a rotten stench. Nothing but the blood of Jesus! Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. This world, Atheists and the devil (Satan) offer no hope.
I am an artist and despite being an atheist I find a lot of inspiration in the stories of the Bible. I recently made a drawing about creation according to Genesis 1, and my family (believers) find it strange that I drew sea monsters; and I had to explain and show them biblical quotes where Leviathan and Rahab are mentioned because they didn't believe me, it seemed too fanciful to them.
Could you imagine the artwork based on the angry tribal war god of the OT? Bashing babies' heads on rocks, genocide, SA, virgins being sold into "marriage" (AKA sex slavery). Although, the Renaissance did have some gory deptictions of some of the biblical scenes. A home with honest depictions of the scenes would be a gore fest.
Brandon thank you for being kind but direct in your criticism. You have reached many more people and helped them to look at the bible critically without judgement of where they are presently in their journey.
I'm definitely with you in feeling empathy with this young guy, I am now 17 years in my "Mindshift" I descovered your channel when you very first started (although I can't see any book reviews on Brandon's Bookshelf, I have through watching your videos learned so much more about the bible that I was never aware of, I look forward to ever video you release, your personal study in secular bible study is fantastic, thank you for all your work you put in to your video's, I certainly appreciate all your work as it reinforced that the very hard Mindshift I did that took over 2 years was the right thing to do, I wish you well from the South East of England 🏴 👍👍👍
If you only learning the meaning of the bible through this channel you be lead further from the truth and we know what happens when the blind lead the blind. We can only take God/Jesus Christ as he is. To some (believers - true born-again believers) he is a sweet-smelling savor, to others (unbelievers - the lost) he is a rotten stench. Nothing but the blood of Jesus! Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. This world, Atheists and the devil (Satan) offer no hope.
@@paulgemme6056 You're wrong. As the Holy Squoggolian Texts (May Nice Snacks Come To Those Who Read Them) clearly state in Vol 1, Stanza 4, Wordy Thing 7 of the Book Of Grumpians : "There is no god but Squoggle the Mighty, bringer of Nice Snacks, and Creator of All Stuff. And yea, Squoggle the Mighty, looked upon the lack of belief of some folks and spake thus, saying 'Ooo! Well, I can't get too upset at that, I 'spose I don't really manifest myself any more. You do you, guys!". What's your argument to _that_ eh? If you say "Well that's just silly made-up nonsense", then I challenge you to _prove_ that it is.
@@beresfordquimby We are not sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners. If a man says he has never done wrong/sinned he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. Unbelievers hate Jesus Christ because he tells us the truth, that we are all sinners in need of God's grace and mercy. That's why he was nailed to the cross. Man hates the truth.
Once I realized I had created an image of God in my mind and then read the bible and discovered my image was completely off base and had no merit because the book described a totally different God than what I had believed him to be. Yeah, that was a life-altering moment. Great video!
@@MindShift-Brandonhi sir, I'm 10 minutes brand new to your channel. Do you believe in any type of divine benevolent being? Do believe when we die, that we will encounter this being? Or? Ty 🌻
@cherylwilliams4738 hey welcome! I am agnostic to a higher being. Based off the unnecessary state of suffering in this would, i would never assume it to be benevolent.
@@MindShift-Brandon Thank you for your reply. Appreciate your honesty and transparency. The reason I ask, is because I am in the middle of a critical health battle. I have been bedridden and in intractable physical pain of 4.5 yrs. and do not know how much longer I have on the planet. I consider myself a Christian, but am struggling greatly with my faith do to my current condition...my hope is fading fast. 😭
I used to take notes in my Bible, but I’d never show it off. The problem came when I started writing ✍️ more questions in the margins than connections.
Do you think that you have the ultimate truth, the ultimate answers for the human race? In fact, what kind of pathetic God could be understood by limited and biased human beings. I hope that you will get to know Christ. He died on a Cross so that we might know Him. Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
That's because you were never born again, born of the Spirit (Holy Spirit. You were religious. Religion will save no one. We can only take God/Jesus Christ as he is. To some (believers - true born-again believers) he is a sweet-smelling savor, to others (unbelievers - the lost) he is a rotten stench. Nothing but the blood of Jesus! Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. This world, Atheists and the devil (Satan) offer no hope.
Kind of reminds me of an obsessive fan that has all sorts of memorabilia in their room. They delude themselves into thinking that the celebrity loves them and they constantly imagine themselves as being friends with them and hanging out together. When they finally get a chance to meet their hero, to tell them how much they love them, the celebrity reacts with the words, “Who the hell are you?” Then tells their security to get this crazy person away from them. If the historical Jesus met this guy he would have no idea who this guy was and would be terrified that people worshipped his crucifixion because he never intended to die.
Wasn't it Bill Hicks who suggested that if Jesus did come back, he would likely have quite a few choice words over seeing renditions of how he died everywhere?
@@CarlHobson-zm2gk god sure was loving when he commanded genocide of all other canaanite peoples That’s like saying a parent is loving for slaughtering one of their kids because the other wanted to be an only child
You are absolutely right. Every christian is by definition a cafeteria christians. No matter which denomination, they all pick and choose what to believe. But specially what to ignore or dismiss. Everything is the inspired word if the only true God, until is not. Then is mis translated, taken out of context, or is cintradicted by history, science, archeology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy or just common sense. As a former catholic I know of many people with whose museums in their houses. Full of posters, giant rosaries, statues, paintings, plus tv programs and radios tuned to some catholic station maybe reciting the rosary or singing hymns on the background. They have to be in a perpetual mindset of " god is with me, I trust god, god will protect me". Some even have stuff in their cars, lije s rosary or scapulary on their car mirror. Maybe little saints figures in their dash. No, I am not kidding. Maybe a Jesus face sticker on the headlights. Is unending. And is suffocating. That was one of the many reasons I left the faith. It was overwhelming.
I'm still unnerved about that oscillating fan shaped like Jesus that my aunt used to have in her living room. That thing was simultaneously funny and creepy.
I'm a former catholic and my father occasionally still pushes holy items and images on me. Even when I believed it seemed stupid. Why would there be a difference between a regular image of Mary and one from Lurd or Međugorje? Superstitious nonsense, I thought, god is everywhere. Not to him thought, somehow in his mind god favours "magical" trinkets, the "holliest" the place/person you get it from the better.
@@Ircy2012 correct. One of the craziest things are the " holy" relics. The idea of magical powers within an object because it belonged to a certain holy person is ridiculous. But nothing in that department beats the holy foreskin of Jesus. It even appears as an engagement ring in a painting of st Catherine of Siena.
The codex was authored in wake of a heated battle of influence of 1st temple mosaic commandments solomonaic era and the more Assyrian physical lawisms & a more platonic macro micro dualism. It's historical and that's why the gospels and Jesus was needed to begin with. Everyone got all platonic idealistic forces faith and physical lawisms attributes that caused summarians to create so many different pagan god to begin with.. Why meglamanic like syncrab could exploit, plagerize and propagandize Everyone. Our own population species darwin order makes us create a marduk basisn mind model for the same reasons just a different avenue. Nasa math maps dark matter spirits in the sky the same way arguing over idealized time while methusela equation monds theory of lazy light is on deck to save the pagan myth & men we praise in 1900s structuralism
Yes, there is no "God of the bible" and then you have people who want to make Jesus God. Then trinitarians who take verses out of context and reject other verses etc. God created men in his image, Xtians created God in their image
@JopJio its absolutely God in the Bible very clearly detailing how he acted upon and moved through his creation while also detailing the corrupt programming of human bias ,the paganism they kept falling in & out of . Explains exactly why a power greater than would come into Jesus to set the perfect example to fix that fallen sin within us all. Triangulated judgment of by for thru = saved reborn renormalize rebirth reorientate selfless personal actor of servitude. Identifying exactly where the equal measure of metamorphosis is encoded and we took those keys to the cosmos anchored textualism methodology objectivism = technological development to improve the human condition free all from old world pagan habits of enslavement and cast systems of serfdom. We built our world upon those pillars and thru those facts we dig out code of nature & universe for ourselves. Every feild or dicipline of study is from this eqaul measure 3rd and final frontier underpining all physics itself. One paradigm away from the big finally as the great unveiling ends as we sense the universe in all its glory
That picture of Jesus standing on the water reaching in struck a surprising chord with me. That idea of him not only saving you from the water that you sink into, but him standing on it, doing the outright impossible in the process. ....I made that. I created a very similar image for one of my favorite stories, for two of my favorite characters, and it's just like this. In my story, you have a girl with a rather awful childhood, leaving her with a bizarre and often backwards moral code. Someone who genuinely cannot understand why the people around her keep telling her that life is valuable and precious for its own sake. But through it all, she still _wants_ to be moral, and do what's right. She just has a lot to learn about what that means. Helping her along in this is an absolute cinnamon roll of an individual, who is equally confused at the idea of genuinely wanting to cause someone harm, as it's unthinkable to him. He ends up volunteering for the job of both keeping her safe from others, and keeping others safe from her. The story focuses on her slow recovery, the moments of growths, the occasional backsliding, and which lines simply can't be crossed....in _either_ direction. Then I came across a song. A song about, now that I think about it....having a mindshift :P The lyrics give off the vibe of the singer protecting someone, waiting patiently until they're ready to change, being there for them in the meantime. It fit my story smooth as a glove, and was deeply emotional besides. Over time I started imagining a sort of music video to go along with it, of this girl's growth throughout the series, and the patient people who've helped her get to a better place. In that "video", I imagine an above and a below, with the above sort of loosely representing a well-adjusted morality and the below being....not. She's immediately pulled from the above to the below by her abusive parent, who sought to control her and bring her down to his level. He got about 99% of the way to that goal before things went south on him. But that still leaves her in the Below, and the path back to the Above is a literal tightrope walk, a thin line going up and away into the distance. This is what she must walk to return to the good she's seeking. But in the earliest stages, she doesn't even attempt it. She's content to stay where she is, thinking she's already doing the right thing, confident enough to argue the point to anyone who disagrees. She ignores the rope entirely, and happily so, walking off while her caretaker at the time looks forlornly back at it. But as time goes on, and she surrounds herself more with better people, that discontent starts to show. Maybe there's something to this? Starting to eye the rope, maybe take a step out, but finding it too unsteady, too unsafe for her liking. Maybe another time. But now she's the one looking back at it, even as she walks away for now. Well, that time eventually comes, and now she's ready to try to go all the way. But it's still an incredibly difficult task, with many feelings and many people that all threaten to topple her over. But with the encouragement of her friends, the guy included, she climbs. And climbs. And slips. And begins to fall. But he catches her, and sets her back on the rope, and now the two walk together, hand in hand, her carefully following the rope, him stepping brazenly on the open air at her side. Doing the outright impossible, a sign of his goodness, as he helps her attain the same goodness in herself. The song's beauty and message combines with my emotional attachment to these two goofballs of mine, and makes me easily cry every time I listen. Apologies for the rant, but that picture made me particularly wistful. I can see so easily the beauty that man sees in that poster, because I feel much the same from that mental image of those two walking off into the distance together. I just wish the image of Jesus and the water didn't have so much baggage attached. With all I've learned about this religion over the years, the whole thing just feels inverted, like Jesus is the one beneath the water, standing upside-down, trying to convince you you're drowning so that you'll let him pull you under...I want to see it as beautiful, and I'm capable of it, but as per the whole point of this video, to get that beauty you have to simply ignore so much ugliness. And that's not a price worth paying, when you can obtain the same level of beauty outside of religion, without the need to worry about constantly ignoring the darker parts that you keep seeing out of the corner of your eye no matter how hard you try to look away. Why would you ever cling to the rare and fleeting pretty parts of an abusive parent when you can leave them behind and find the consistent and long-lasting beauty of an actually _healthy_ relationship? Most likely, you'd do it because you can't escape, or because there's something there that you can't stand to leave behind....or because you simply don't know there's anything better out there. All the more-so if one of the abuser's favorite tactics is to slander everyone else and make them look infinitely worse. Why would you leave bad for worse? That's silly. But the only proof you have that it's actually worse...comes from the bad. Don't let them drag you down with them. That rope is always there for you to climb back up, and there will always be people that will help you stay safely on it if you let them. Christianity gets one thing right: Your true home is in the Above. Just not the one they preach.
This is my favorite video of yours Brandon, because it’s a fascinating look into this sort of behavior. Also it hit’s a little close to home for I more or less had a similar mindset in certain areas of pop culture.
We don't need constant reminders that Superman is the hero of the story. Why do we have to be reminded how good God is? If he was good, that would be obvious. His actions would speak for themselves.
@@andrewferg8737Yes, and many of the awful things happening all over the world are things that God have instructed his prophets to do in the bible, also, the news are mostly rage bait, there are many good things happening in the world, it doesn't make people watch the news though.
"the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing" (1 Corinthians 1) "Each day Jesus, naked and bleeding on the cross, unveils God and destroys every false image of what it means to be powerful. Let us look to him and thus find the courage to look at ourselves, to follow the path of confident trust and intercession and to make servants of ourselves in order to reign with him.” (Pope Francis 2022) "from that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?" (John 6)
Christianity has a lot of blood rituals they claim is evil with non Christians do it. Flesh and blood of Christ… wine and bread is the substitute in modern times, but got asked for animal sacrifices many times in the Bible. Not to mention killing first sons.
@@leroyh8977 "Blood magic. Pagan, archaic rituals"--- Indeed. Soviet Union deaths --- 61,911,000 Nazis genocide--- 20,946,000 Imperial Japan deaths --- 50,000,000 Maoist China deaths - 80,000,000 Abortions per day --- 200,000 "Each day, Jesus naked and bleeding on the cross, unveils God and destroys every false image of what it means to be powerful. Let us look to him and thus find the courage to look at ourselves” (Pope Francis 2022)
Thanks for sharing that video of the man’s room. Though I cannot remember seeing in person another room like that, I have seen houses with many, many Christian objects, pictures, and knickknacks in them.
Brandon, your work is so good! Please keep doing what you are doing. There is such a dire need for the “light” to be shown on the realities of this religion. Thank you brother!
If only I had seen this video 50 years ago! I bathed in the blood of the ‘lovely Jesus’ for many years. I was whole hog into it-church choir, catechism, alter boy, campus crusade for Christ, an ungodly number of bible studies, I even read through the entire bible-twice!, as well as developing an obsession with crosses! Yet never once did I ever come across anything that made me think of Jesus as something other than the pure embodiment of love and kindness. And the more of this image I constructed in my head, the less I was able to see the true full picture. It took years for the scales to completely fall from my eyes, and am so disappointed in myself that I never thought to ask some very basic questions of those leading me down this path. I truly blocked out anything that did not fit my idea of Jesus. I am embarrassed to have been so completely hoodwinked then brainwashed. This was a brilliant video! Your clear and very authentic thought process combined with your ability to clearly communicate your ideas is a joy to behold! Thank you for these important videos. I hope they help others to dispense with this nonsense when they are young and can still lead a full life free of guilt and self-deception.
It's really sad whenever I try to point this exact same thing to my Christian friend's they get all defensive and angry at me. They always say I'm angry at God because of men. What they won't and don't understand is how heart broken and sad I am because they refuse to see how brain washed and blind they really are. Another awesome video Brandon. Love ya brother 👍🏽 🤗
Great video! As an ex Catholic we had lots of stuff to put around our house and carry. Statues of saints and Jesus and the rosary beads to keep on hand. The problem is Catholic devotions can be weaponized even against other Catholics if they don’t pray the rosary every day.
"...and it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him..." Why aren't there posters of this? Sounds like a rowdy, boozy good time.
To paraphrase ` They don't believe the bible means what it says. They're convinced it says what they mean.` Social development carries on despite religious influence. In modern society where religious institutions don't have the power they once had to repress those views, it tends to manifest by more progressive Christians reinterpreting the bible to fit, while traditionalists rail against it. Until eventually the traditionalists jump on the reinterpretation bandwagon, and then pretend like it's always been interpreted that way. Easy example: Slavery.
The thing is that catholic has been interpreting the bible with a certain tradition at hand for 2000 years the "the bible used to be that it is fully literal until "traditionalilst"(which are christian evangelist, which isn't traditional as they do not accept apolistic succesion) were rebutted by the atheist and agnostic thinkers, and then apologists start to invent a new narrative, is a false one. The main way the bible used to be interpreted in the middle ages was metaphorical and allegorical and the alexandrite school used to be this way. I think the only thing that has changed is the view on lgbtq and marriage by progressive theology, not slavery.
@@toonyandfriends1915 The orthodox are really into the mystery and feeling side, I attend a church of christ, but I am for all followers of christ working together to build the kingdom and bring it around for all to see
TheraminTrees made a good point when he said Yahweh did the whole flashy sacrifice for narcissistic reasons. He could have done it quietly with no fanfare or formed himself in the body of a cow or goat to represent all the animals that had been sacrificed needlessly before. But nope, he had to make a big deal about it to satisfy his ego instead of just not having rules that require blood or just changing the rules. I'd LOVE if you guys could have an interview. I think he's a practicing psychologist. I saw a post say one time, "If Jesus was a sacrifice then why wasn't it done on an alter per the rules?" Which I thought was a good point. No one says the victims of the flood were sacrifices.
I’m an Atheist and my wife and I were talking about the Bible and she took it out to show it to me. When she did some pages of the book fell out. I looked at her, smiled, then said; “It falls apart when I read it too.”
3:25 In the fantasy TV show "Carnival Row", the have a religion sort of like Christianity, but instead the "Martyr" died by hanging. So they have interjections like "God's Noose!"
Yeah, I had that thought many times when they bring up the "cross is a symbol of hope".. would you wear a noose around your neck as a symbol of hope? Hope not! 😂
I find it funny how they highlight the bible passages, like it a divine author like God shouldn't have a book that need to be readjusted damn Rubix cube to make sense of it
Yeah also funny because they’re basically saying one verse is more important or meaningful than others. If I were trying to be really pious and show off, I’d highlight every single verse and then show them my Bible: page after page of 100% yellow highlighting. 😂
I wonder how many people realize that 1. their sacred book is written in languages vast majority of believers can’t read 2. In the two millennia of Christian history, due to very low literacy rate, only a tiny fraction of believers could actually read the text themselves. Now, honestly, was it smart of the omnipotent creator of the universe to choose a manmade book to communicate with humans?🤔
It's the god and Jesus he imagines them to be, not the way they're actually written in the Bible. All the uncomfortable, evil, immoral, illogical, impossible stuff, is just pushed aside.
@@suicune2001 "Being gay is wrong, it's right here in black and white." (You show them the scripture in the same book regarding having to unalive your wife if she's not a virgin on her wedding night) "Well, that's out of context - if we go to Matthew 1..." (then listen to the thousand excuses on why divorce and adultery aren't as bad as the Bible clearly states it is)
"not the way they're actually written in the Bible." That's a meaningless phrase. The bible is a mass of contraction, to say nothing of the fact that there are over 450 versions of the Bible and over 40,000 distinct Christian sects. NO ONE is an arbitrator of what is "actually written in the Bible." Such claims are on the same level as any claims made by Christians one does NOT agree with, because they are the same meaningless claim, based entirely on HOW one cherry-picks the Bible (and science) to arrive at what THEY believe it means to be Christian. Another "Christian" will dispute EVERY claim made. This is why words like "biblical," "Christian," "Christianity," etc., have no real meaning - because they have NO meaning even among those who claim the religion.
Really enjoyed this video. One critique is on the Lion and Lamb poster: we just can't know what the poster is referring to. To make the assumption it is the Isaiah verse is a little bit of a stretch. I know you went on to explain the ambiguity of what it could mean, but you came back to claiming it must have been referring to the misconception of the Isaiah verse. A lot of great work was put into the video; it is definitely appreciated. Keep it up.
His scrawled on bible makes me think of Forrest Valkai's bible were he's highlighted all the passages where god does something awful by today's standards. There's a LOT of highlighter in there.
I think it would be interesting to have a similar Tiktok video where the teen emphasizes all of the swept-under-a-rug verses through bedroom art. Imagine the poster of a half-lion Jesus spattered as he stomps a wine press with the caption “I come not to bring peace, but a sword.” The comforter is embroidered with Psalm 137, proudly declaring “Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.” The headboard is carved with “Solomon: 4,000 horse stall or 40,000? Teach the controversy!”
"religion can bring people to see a blood bath, with positive symbology"--- In the "Encyclopedia of Wars" (2004), Axelrod and Philips assign religious causes to only 7% of the conflicts throughout recorded history with 66 of those specifically involving Islam while all other religions combined were involved in less than 3% of wars. Martel's "The Encyclopedia of War" (2012) confirms a percentage of 6% for wars involving religion. The BBC's "God and War" audit asserts that 93% of wars are motivated by land, resources, political control, ethnic enmity, and a host of other secular reasons. Soviet Union deaths --- 61,911,000 Nazis genocide--- 20,946,000 Imperial Japan deaths --- 50,000,000 Maoist China deaths - 80,000,000 Current Abortions per day --- 200,000
Yep. It kind of makes me want to write a fiction story about aliens with similar beliefs to Christians. Instead of sacrificing one of their own every week and devouring his body and drinking his blood, they'll sacrifice one of the enslaved alien species and use them as a substitute. They could even completely wipe out another planet, per their prophecy, and when the end times don't show up they think there must be someone they missed and just start going scorched earth everywhere.
Gods have to adapt to the era. To prove that they are all knowing. They have to be seen to be on point when "the faithful" catch up with the correct and ethical ideology. And when "the faithful" think everyone else has forgotten how late to the party they where, out comes, "It was part of gods great plan." Or "mysterious ways" analogy.
It was so funny when I read a chapter from the Old Testament to my pro-life auntie where God promotes rabbis poisoning/cursing adulterous pregnant women. She tried to excuse it away saying the death that was endorsed in the Old Testament isn't endorsed in the New Testament. I asked her where did God or Jesus say abortion is bad in the new testament? 😂
9:40 Where was God speaking to you BEFORE you lost faith? If you can't understand his will, blah blah blah when you don't have the Holy Spirit (which should always be there once saved) , then why didn't you when you DID? God has piss-poor communication skills.
the g0d gets outcompeted by 4-year-old humans. Whenever those cute smurfs and smurfettes want something, they say "Hello" the g0d? Not even a text message ever.
4:00 - I'm already wary of people who deprive _themselves_ of sleep, but I'm utterly disgusted by anyone who deprives _others_ of their sleep... There's a reason why it's classified as torture... 🤬
You had me spitting my coffee with this one 😂. I know you don't mean to take the piss, but sometimes it helps to see the crazy world of Christianity. Thankyou.
The difference between the first guy and a superfan of marvel comics is that the superfan won't actively work against the rights of human beings, support nonsense like genocide, and are generally more caring, empathetic human beings because of the stories they've read, especially lots of the X-Men and Inhuman ones. *cough*
Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who cares Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who's there Feeling unknown And you're all alone Flesh and bone By the telephone Lift up the receiver I'll make you a believer Take second best Put me to the test Things on your chest You need to confess I will deliver You know I'm a forgiver Reach out, touch faith Reach out, touch faith Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who cares Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who's there Feeling unknown And you're all alone Flesh and bone By the telephone Lift up the receiver I'll make you a believer I will deliver You know I'm a forgiver Reach out, touch faith Your own personal Jesus Reach out, touch faith Reach out, touch faith Reach out, touch faith (Reach out, reach out) Reach out, touch faith Reach out and touch faith
Back when I was a Christian I went to a Bible study and the guy leading the study lent me his Bible. I opened it and saw it was filled with highlights, underlines, etc. I said to him jokingly: “You know Rick, if you highlight everything it’s the stuff that isn’t highlighted that starts to stand out.” Everyone laughed, and it was a joke, but there is some truth to it. Some people do get carried away with the annotations😂
We (right, wrong or indifferent) tend to whitewash the "improprieties" of those we idolize, and mental gymnastics is one hell of a drug. I think (I don't know for sure, my house was never raised religiously) the reason that this kind of Christian tale personal pride in a worn-down Bible is to "prove" that they "go through" the Bible on a very frequent basis (primarily the verses they prefer). It is the same with my copy of The Art of War, but I view that book in a philosophical way, rather than idolizing war, nor view Sun Tzu as some kind of weird prophet.
Fascinating video. It’s an interesting take. When I was a Christian, I highlighted and underlined many verses in the Bible. I was one of those that believed the more used the Bible was the more religious or faithful I was. Now, after spending money on expensive study bibles, I never will write in them and I will keep them in their protective boxes. One benefit to not highlighting is you can look at the verses anew and with fresh eyes.
I'm a believer and have seen the "showboating" in churches. The crosses on clothes, the cross ear rings and necklaces, flaunting the worn out bible, boasting about feeding the homeless. I was in the holy land for 2 weeks and when I got back I was suddenly a church "star". I reveled in my newfound glory for a few weeks until I slid back to my natural "nobody" status.
christians refuse to follow what their own books say. It has many verses that say we are NOT to Add, Take Away, or even Interpret the bibles! So what it says, it means.... whether you like it or not! Do not Add to it, do not Take Away the parts you don't like, and most importantly, do NOT Interpret his word. But most believers never bother to even READ those books...
This fits very nice with the whole idea of "Personal/Individual God" doesn't it? People believe what they like, hide what they do not and sculpt god to their preferred image. If you're feeling ironic, you can even say that they made their god "in their image".
If you listen to the lyrics to the song.... uiiiuii 😳 it sounds like an ancient blood cult. Praising the shedding of blood (ending an innocent person's life) to get forgiveness of the own sins. Actually, it's quite disgusting....
@@andrewferg8737 I get your point. But I just can't ignore, that religion invented and commanded this kind of blood cult and now I shall see it positively, that this blood cult ended its blood cult... Without the "good, loving and just God", who invented, commanded, requested the shedding of blood cult to somehow be able to forgive "sins" (commited by other people even) by shedding blood of innocent animals and humans, we would have never experienced this disgusting useless practice in the first place.... ! So, I am sorry, but I see it differently than you.
@@SeekingTruth2023 "invented, commanded, requested the shedding of blood cult" ---- "I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand?" (Isaiah 1) "I was but a little displeased, but then they helped forward the affliction" (Zechariah 1)
@@SeekingTruth2023 "see it differently than you" --- Are you suggesting that you are independent of the work and sacrifice of others? From your mother who gave you life, the labors of your father who gave you sustenance, and life of every being you have consumed for nourishment? Or your role in sustaining others who depend on you? Love is a creative act of relational interdependence. All action requires work. Work can be a joy or a torment. God is Love. Do our lives praise Him or nail Him to a cross? Peace be with you.
@@andrewferg8737 Like I said, I get your point. But why can't this allegedly allmighty, all powerful, all-loving absolute sovereign entity, you call good God, not just forgive, when someone honestly repents, asks for forgivenessand tries his utmost best to be obedient? Whe does God need (even innocent) blood to be able to forgive?? Isn't he almighty in the end, and can not do that? Surely not. We are "made in his image' and we are we are able to forgive. Or maybe he can - but he doesn't want to? In case he is really almighty, he can forgive the small mistakes his fallible creation makes (I mean, he created them fallible). He asks us to forgive, not only our friends, but even our enemies! That is his command (at least in the NT). If he commands his fallible creation to forgive - without blood involved! and I am sure you will say that his commands are all just, complete and good, right? - why does HE not stick to his own law? And forgive like a forgiving father! It is practically his own analogy. Imagine a human father, whose child angers him by making a mistake (intentionally or even unintentionally) and the father says: Dear son, I love you so much! I will forgive you.... if you, let's say sacrifice your obedient friend to me. He has not done the mistake that I want to punish, but I need to shed blood, in order to forgive you, my dear son. I love you so much ... What an awkward situation, what a disgusting behavior of this father right? But, when the sovereign omnibenevolent God does the same, it is magically so loving, generous, graceful, merciful, worthy of utmost gratitude?? How strange.... And yes, I know the verses you provided. But even these verses don't even remotely solve the problem, that this allegedly sovereign omnibenevolent and JUST God invested, requested and commanded this shedding for blood for him to be able to forgive. Or do you want to say it is just to create humans fallible, give laws intentionally and fully knowing, that they van NOT keep them, and then say, in order for me to forgive you, you have to slaughter innocent animals for thousands of years, before finally requesting a human sacrifice to reconcile with his own fallible creation - which he MADE this way?... I don't see any justice in that. Worldy courts and practically all societies see no justice in that. But if God does it, it is magically just?? Hmm...
In the 80s and 90s in the UK, evangelical churches were displaying posters of Jesus that emulated the famous image of Che Guevara with the caption "Meek. Mild. As if." The purpose was clear: to portray Jesus as tough and hard, to appeal to "tough and hard" non-Christians. Meekness was seen almost as a sin, not a fruit of the Spirit. But, even though I was a Christian at that point, it made me feel that I wasn't wanted. I could imagine a "well hard" Jesus telling me that he didn't want a weak, soft, nerdy, specky-four-eyed poof in his Kingdom and I should piss off. So I did - to the Quakers.
Along the Lion/Lamb talk, there is another similar one. The "Morningstar" in Rev 22:16 is referring to Jesus. While the King of Babylon (fallen from grace) is also referred to as the Morningstar in Isaiah 14:12. Satanists also refer to Satan as the "Morningstar"... 😂 it's almost like as long as you worship either you will be saved
The lion and the lamb artwork is because Jesus is called both the lion of the tribe of Judah and the lamb that was slain from thr foundation of the world. The duality is what that is representing. There's literally a popular song that references that and I assume that's why he bought that.
Ah, I thought the picture was of Jesus under the water with and hand asking for help. I'm reminded of a quote by Voltaire (perhaps a little too heavy for the episode): "God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh." Another fine job Brandon, thanks.
I was like this kid once. So I feel for him.I was thinking about how I was like him,and it made me wince.I'm just glad that, being 68 years old, I'm not caught up in that delusion anymore. Good video, Brandon. You sure know how to get a point across.
9:30 Yeah that idea always scared the shit out of me as a Christian because I never really understood the Bible in all of its bloodshed to be a good thing.......... The idea that I was not understanding the Bible because I just didn't have enough faith in that if I had more God would magically make the words pop out to me in a different way somehow........ Basically the more you believe the more results you will get is what it boils down to which is such a cold controlling tactic. I mean you tell a Christian you don't have faith anymore because you're not seeing God work and they tell you it's because you have low faith but in reality you've lost your faith because God isn't showing up. Christian's really have a way to make it all your fault don't they..... I see why Caesar in the Romans adopted Christianity as a control tactic for the public. You could just say if you're a bad boy that you go to hell and if that doesn't control people and they don't believe then you can tell them they're really bad and they go to hell and they can't understand the Bible because they don't have faith to begin with. What a trip
Back when I was a Christian, I used to make notes in my Bible. I did it to help myself understand and remember context to various passages and stories.
Ahhh, I had a customer that would say, "Praise God" and "hallelujah" and "Amen!" Every other sentence, all the time! As a believer at the time, I was embarrassed by her self righteous attitude. Yuck. Annoying, too.
EVIL YWH DOING HIS GENOCIDE, TORT, RAPE, PEDOS IS TIGHT To be a EUNCUH IS Tight I love when he said Mary Poppins is TIGHT He such a GENIUS THESE EVIL PSYCHOS THAT FOLLOW THIS CULT
If Christians accept God the way he is portrayed in the Bible they'll realize that their God is a jealous & cruel God & not the God of love they think he is. Happy Tuesday Brandon!
Not "God of love". God IS Love. How does Love respond when their child is kidnapped, their mother violated, their son tortured to death, their invitation to education, happiness, and purpose are spurned, when Love in all its selfless goodness is called evil...???? Repent already and believe the GOOD news.
@@andrewferg8737 God is not love he's the illusion of love. if his child gets kidnapped, his mother violated, & his son tortured? That's God's fault, Those things happens only because God allows it in the first place since God is omnipotent. he could have created a better universe but instead he created a flawed universe where evil thrives. & Your supposedly loving God sends innocent people to hell to be tortured for all eternity just because they didn't worship him.
@@sauron69447 "Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?" (Isaiah 45)
"How quickly will you break the spine?" Never. I take care of my books. Are you saying your daughter doesn't? Thank you for your time, I'll be leaving now.
I've never understood why people think of Jesus as kind and meek when the Bible portrays him as an unhinged, beligerent, creepy loser who's obsessed with blood magic and violence.
@alexritchie4586 Yes. He tore it up in the Temple during Passover. Calling the priesthood/pharisees "a brood of vipers" (a term which he took directly from John the Baptist). Telling disciples to sell their cloaks and buy swords. Saying he himself came to bring a sword, not peace. Or in other words to sew disunity. Whataguy, no?
I was in a church choir for six or so years, when I was deep in Christianity. I don’t really think back on the many songs we sang, but the second that video clip played of the people singing about Jesus’ blood, memories came flooding back of a song we sang that had very similar lyrics… it is so weird how quickly something can bring back memories you have not thought about in years… and looking back, it is so strange how we happily sang about death and blood and being washed in someone else’s blood… I understand WHY we sang about that, but now as an atheist and an “outsider”, it is just strange.
It's horrific, isn't it. Singing and praising about being washed clean through the torturous horrific death of an apparently blameless man. To me it is a sick A.F.
It makes complete sense when a person is not born again. Remember that John said.......1John 2:19 [19]They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. If a person is truly elected, he or she will remain. But it's clear that some are cut and others remain.
@@georgeaguilar6996 I apologize if I am misunderstanding the point you are trying to make, but…. If you are saying that I was never a Christian/born again, then you couldn’t be more wrong. I was born again. It was my life. But… I grew, changed, and I ended up deconstructing my faith and ending up as an atheist. While I am an atheist now, that does not mean I was never a Christian before. People change sometimes, and that is okay.
@@georgeaguilar6996 Your so called "reasons" in those verses were written long ago by writers creating ideas specifically designed to make members of an ancient cult feel special in order to keep a strong mental hold on it's cult members. Every religion does this telling those who obey and keep these specific beliefs and habits that they are special and will get great reward for their loyalty and dedication. It's a con as old as cults themselves. Don't be suckered.
Jesus failed in the fig tree story. He could have gone the other way and commanded the tree to produce fruit. Wouldn’t that have been a more important message as he is the giver of life? 😮
exactly, great video, I say some of those same things to people all the time and Christians indeed constantly promote what they promote have the visualizations that they have , in part to Keep propping up their own faith,, it's almost as a way to prop up their own insecurities also another funny thing is when you mentioned have an indentation of a cross on a penny or something that reminded me years ago I had a cross cut out in a penny and I shoved it on my key ring , so I just went over to my key ring and it is still there like seven years later I've been an atheist for about three years now lol I guess it's been on there so long I don't even think about it but when you said that it reminded me and I went and looked
Really, that sums up God's character; he is a blank slate that people would mold to fit their beliefs or convictions. Like, does God hate LGBTQ people? If a person found gay people icky, then surely their god would think so. Is God loving? Well, they would write God to fit their narrative. We are the ones who created the concept of god, and therefore, we base this character on our own reservations and preferences.
Happy Tuesday, thanks for watching!
Glad to be here.
Will always be here 👍🏼 for Mind Shift and Brandon
Substitute the term god or jesus with goodness and your questions are easily answered.
@andrewferg8737 too bad different words mean different things, eh?
I am KJV only and you can't prove your claims about changes besides the spelling and removal of the Apocrypha.
The shepherd protects the sheep from the wolves, but we should never forget that it's the shepherd that eventual eats &/or shears the sheep.
He also made the evil wolves.
A few years ago, DarkMatter2525 did an excellent video "Worse than the Wolf". He talks the parable of the fish, wheat and the sheep. Definitely worth watching if you haven't seen it!
Shearing The Sheep doesn't hurt the sheep. It's like when we go to The Barber to get our hair cut. IT'S COMPLETELY PAINLESS!!!! In fact if you don't shear them they grow so much wool that they eventually can't move and they're either eaten by wild predators, they starve because they can't move in order to graze or the weight of their own wool crushes them. If you shear sheep they're wool grows back.
@@thing1thing2themediamaniac43 the shepherd doesn't do anything for altruistic reasons. The shepherd is getting something. Food or profit. Get used for no other reason as a means to an end. Preachers have taken this training to heart and they follow their god's example. Fleece them all and eat up!
@Moralatheist101 There are Vegeterian Shepherds who raise sheep merely for their wool But you are correct I stand by my earlier point Shearing The Sheep doesn't hurt them It helps them.
Every Christian worships a different version of Jesus. They create the Jesus that fits their own biases and beliefs.
They ALL IGNORE EVIL SPAWN ZOMBIES COMMAND TO BE A EUNCUH. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
So now I know how the Western Christian Slave master did it. I still want my mule and donkey.
@@CaliforniaSurfer-gc2xvthis is the screams I hear in cod zombies 🤣
8lb, 6oz baby Jesus. 👶
On the subject of the cross, Bill Hicks said something like, "Why is the cross a symbol of Christianity? When Christ comes back do you think he ever wants to see a f'n cross again? It's like someone showing their rifle pendant to Jackie Onassis and saying, 'Just thinking, of John, Jackie!'".
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If the lowercase t came before the cross and was copyrighted, the creator could probably copyright strike Christianity for stealing their idea.
Course Bill Hicks was an idiot, also dead, but he had a gotcha moment you like.
@@jpyoung5137 yet liberals love a rainbow flag, a symbol that's killed untold amounts of homosexuals, the hatred for Christ is so strong, donchathink?
Why not use the Morning Star as Jesus Christ's symbol? In the Bible, he becomes it when he is resurrected and transformed. Is it because it sounds like he is Lucifer and the Devil transformed as an angel of light?
Could it be that the Church prefers to use the cross because it is subliminal messaging? Do they want you as broken down as he was in the cross, so they can retain you as long as possible in the Church caught up in their web of lies?
Lol my bible is full of notes from secular bible study. Someday someone will think I'm spiritual until they look closer and see "this god is a fucking monster" 😂
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You just gave me an idea, LOL....now I have reasons to use up my sticky notes 😅😅😅 THANKS
"Someday someone will think I'm spiritual until they look closer and see 'this god is a fucking monster"---
Indeed.
"I have said, ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High" (Psalm 82)
@andrewferg8737 Yes, the "Most High" refers to the head Canaanite god El (fictional) who Yahweh (fictional) was later conflated with.
Scholarship below.
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According to the general consensus of scholarship *(even critical Christian scholars),* YHWH was originally incorporated into the Canaanite pantheon as a son of the Canaanite high god El before inheriting the top spot in the pantheon and El's wife Athirat (Asherah) before religious reforms "divorced" them. El's pantheon in Ugarit (modern day Ras Shamra in Syria) is called the *Elohim,* literally the plural of El. Interestingly, the Biblical god is also referred to numerous times as Elohim. If you want to see if El is fictional, just read his mythology in the Ugaritic/Canaanite texts.
"The mysterious Ugaritic text Shachar and Shalim tells how (perhaps near the beginning of all things) *El* came to shores of the sea and saw two women who bobbed up and down. *El* was sexually aroused and took the two with him, killed a bird by throwing a staff at it, and roasted it over a fire. He asked the women to tell him when the bird was fully cooked, and to then address him either as husband or as father, for he would thenceforward behave to them as they called him. They saluted him as husband. He then lay with them, and they gave birth to Shachar ("Dawn") and Shalim ("Dusk"). Again *El* lay with his wives and the wives gave birth to "the gracious gods", "cleavers of the sea", "children of the sea". The names of these wives are not explicitly provided, but some confusing rubrics at the beginning of the account mention the goddess *Athirat (Asherah),* who is otherwise *El's* chief wife, and the goddess Raḥmayyu ("the one of the womb"), otherwise unknown."
*"First, a god named El predates the arrival of the Israelites into Syria-Palestine.* Biblical usage shows El was not just a generic noun, but often a proper name for Israel’s God (e.g., Gen 33:20: “El, the God of Israel”)."
"I should add here that it is very clear from the grammar that the noun nachalah in v. 9 should be translated “inheritance.” *Yahweh receives Israel as his “inheritance” (nachalah), just as the other sons of El received their nations as their inheritance (nachal, v. 8).* With this verb, especially in the Hiphil, the object is always what is being given as an inheritance. Thus, Israel is given to Yahweh as his inheritance. ((Here I’m indebted to Dan McClellan.)) It would make no sense for Elyon to give himself an inheritance. Moreover, as I’ve argued elsewhere, it is not just the Gentile nations that are divided up according to the number of the *sons of El.* It is all of humankind, i.e., “the sons of Adam.” This clearly includes Israel. And the sons of Adam are not divided up according to the number of the *sons of El,* plus one (i.e., plus Elyon). They are divided up, according to the text, *solely* according to the number of the *sons of El.* *Thus, that Yahweh receives Israel as his inheritance makes Yahweh one of the sons of El mentioned in v. 8. Any other construal of the text would constitute its rewriting.*
A Sumerian hymn speaks to the goddess: “Nanshe, your divine powers are not matched by any other divine powers.” *Does this mean that Nanshe was the high goddess, that there were no gods above her? No, it does not.* Nanshe was the daughter of Enki, the high god. *In Sumerian mythology, as with Ugaritic, Israelite, Babylonian, and others, in the ancient past, the high god (Enki, in this case) divided up the world and assigned his children certain domains.* Nanshe was given a limited domain (the modern Persian Gulf) and was tasked with maintaining social justice there. *This is exactly what we see in Deuteronomy 32 with Yahweh. Yahweh is given a limited domain (Israel) and is given authority over his people, to punish them, as well as to protect and defend them against foreign enemies.* That Yahweh, like Nanshe, is said to have incomparable divine power *does not* mean that he is not subordinate to the high god who gave him his domain. *It is also of note that Nanshe, like Baal, Yahweh, and so many other deities, evolved over time. Her domain increased, and she was promoted in the pantheon (although she never became the high goddess)."*
*"The Most Heiser: Yahweh and Elyon in Psalm 82 and Deuteronomy 32 - Religion at the Margins"* based on the *majority scholarly consensus.*
(Written by Thom Stark who is a Christian)
*"Michael Heiser: A Unique Species? - Religion at the Margins"*
(A second response to Michael Heiser)
*"Excerpt from “Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan” by John Day - Lehi's Library."*
*"The Table of Nations: The Geography of the World in Genesis 10"* - TheTorah.com
(Excluding the short narrative on Nimrod (vv. 8-12), *which appears to be a later addition,* Genesis 10 contains *70* names of nations or cities, a number that was symbolic of totality. Similarly, the descendants of Jacob were *70* in number (Gen 46:37; Exod 1:5), *as were the sons of the supreme Canaanite god El, with whom YHWH became equated.)*
*"Polytheism and Ancient Israel’s Canaanite Heritage. Part V | theyellowdart"*
(Of course, much of this [i.e., that Israel worshiped El and Asherah alongside YHWH] is really to be expected given that recent syntheses of the *archaeological, cultural, and literary data* pertaining to the emergence of the nation of Israel in the Levant *show that most of the people who would eventually compose this group were originally Canaanite. As the Hebrew Bible notes, the Hebrew language itself is a Canaanite language, literally the “lip of Canaan” (שְׂפַת כְּנַעַן; Is. **19:18**), and so it cannot often be distinguished by modern scholars from other Canaanite inscriptions on purely linguistic grounds.)*
*"Ugarit - New World Encyclopedia"*
(Ugaritic religion centered on the chief god, Ilu or El, whose titles included "Father of mankind" and "Creator of the creation." The Court of El was referred to as the (plural) 'lhm or ***Elohim,*** a word ***later used by the biblical writers to describe the Hebrew deity*** and translated into English as "God," in the singular.
El, which was ***also the name of the God of Abraham,*** was described as an aged deity with white hair, seated on a throne.)
*"Mark Smith: Yahweh as El’s Son & Yahweh’s Ascendency - Lehi's Library"*
(Mark Smith is a Catholic)
*"God, Gods, and Sons (and Daughters) of God in the Hebrew Bible. Part III | theyellowdart"*
*"02 | December | 2009 | Daniel O. McClellan - Psalm 82"*
(Daniel McClellan is a Mormon)
*"Elohim | Daniel O. McClellan"*
(Refer to the article "Angels and Demons (and Michael Heiser)")
*"God's Wife Edited Out of the Bible - Almost."*
(Pay attention to whose wife Asherah (Athirat) is in the Ugaritic/Canaanite texts and how she became the wife of YHWH/Yahweh)
*"Yahweh's Divorce from the Goddess Asherah in the Garden of Eden - Mythology Matters."*
*"Asherah, God's Wife in Ancient Israel. Part IV - theyellowdart"*
*"The Gates of Ishtar - El, was the original god of the bible."*
*"The Gates of Ishtar - Anath in the Elephantine Papyri"*
(In addition to Asherah (Athirat) being the consort of Yahweh, it appears some Israelites also viewed the Canaanite goddess Anat(h) as Yahweh's consort)
*"Canaanite Religion - New World Encyclopedia"*
(Refer to the section "Relationship to Biblical Religion")
*"The Syncretization of Yahweh and El : reddit/AcademicBiblical"*
(For a good summary of all of the above articles)
Watch Professor Christine Hayes who lectures on the Hebrew Bible at Yale University. Watch lecture 2 from 40:40 to 41:50 minutes, lecture 7 from 30:00 minutes onwards, lecture 8 from 12:00 to 17:30 minutes and lecture 12 from 27:40 minutes onwards.
Watch *"Pagan Origins of Judaism"* by Sigalius Myricantur and read the description in the video to see the scholarship the video is based on.
Watch *"How Monotheism Evolved"* by Sigalius Myricantur and watch up to at least 21:40.
Watch *"Atheism - A History of God (The Polytheistic Origins of Christianity and Judaism)"*
(By a former theist)
Watch *"The Origins of Yahweh"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica.
@AnthoniePerez.94 Bro you need to listen to more than 30 seconds of literally any one of Mindshift's videos. When I look at the "evils of the world" I think, "At least we don't live beholden to a so-called god that endorses slavery, genocide, rape, and child marriage." If that's your "just judge" then, respectfully... go pluck yourself.
Taking God as presented in the Bible would remove the need for apologists & theologians to make excuses for him.
Which is what lead Mr. Deity to coin the term "excusegist"
"as presented in the Bible"---
As a youth, I happened upon my older sister's medical textbook one day. The volume was opened, much to my horror and dismay, to a full-color plate depicting a facial avulsion. I began flipping through the book questioning within myself what on earth it was that my sister had been reading all this time. Later of course, I came to learn the purpose of that text, and my sister's noble aspirations in studying it so assiduously. I had, of course, confused description with prescription.
If you are strong in faith, you don't need apologists or theologians.
The problem is most people are not that strong in faith
Not to mention you don't really need to know that much theology to be saved
@@bignoob1790”if you quickly dismiss critical thought, you won’t need reasoning to back your convictions”
@@Davie-jx4rh
Critical thought is great, I thank God that he gave me a mind to use
4:36 I think I’ve made this comment before but I was at mass once and the homily was about pagan rituals and how they could never work because Jesus is the only one that saves. The priest went on and on about it and my mother kept commenting on how all those rituals the ‘evil pagans and idol worshippers’ did were powerless. Then the homily ended, the church sang feverishly about being washed in the blood of a Jesus and the priest said some magic words to turn bread into a dead guys body. I probably looked so shocked sitting there thinking ‘Wait a minute, this is just another messed up ritual!’
Back when I was Catholic I thought that that stuff was obviously symbolic, for example I didn't know that a baptism was supposed to change anything real, I though of it as a way to give a name to the kid and welcome it in the family, it's after became an Atheist that I discovered that the Catholic Church takes all that very seriously.
it is truly and utterly insane
Ironically I have heard of pagan rituals working in modern time. I forgot where it was, but some people in Thailand? Maybe? Did a mock animal sacrifice ritual with a stuffed animal to bring rain and afterwards it began to rain.
@@33-vertebrae Now the work to rule out that that was a coincidence begins!
I went to Catholic schools, K-12 and at one point there was a surprisingly popular song sung at mass. It got taken out for being “too pagan”, despite- or maybe because- its being a favorite with the students.
When I was a Christian I used to post up photos of the sunset. When they were extra beautiful I would claim it was God's paintbrush. I never posted photos of a hurricane or tornado as Gods paintbrush. That's how easy it is to believe when you only see the world through Faith Goggles.
Yep sorta like Christian; "Look at that bird.. God makes perfection" Me; "Ya maggots and parasites are so cute"😂
Actually, it was the pain of life that caused me to seek for God. Why is there pain in the world? If you believe evolution, that the universe is a cruel prankster, meting out pain your entire life, then you die, then you will miss the cure.
Atheists mock the concept of hell, but it is the pain of the Cross that is the only solution to human suffering. Christ died on a Cross so that we may know Him. Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
@@kenshiloh Okay... But how do we know you aren't just selling snake-oil "panacea"
And also, why did God make it that way? He could've just cured everyone. Apparently not everyone deserves the cure, but think about it. When you strip everyone of their bodily forms and their mental training, they are all the same. Consciousness. And why would you prejudice raw consciousness based on the individual that it inhabits, and how it turns out - moral or misaligned? I think that's very unfair. Is desert even a coherent concept in the first place when it comes to anything other than pragmatic treatment for the sake of others? I think it collapses when you have the power to ensure that everybody can not be a problem for anybody. God's convoluted system is very weird to me.
@@kenshilohAnd if you believe in a creation we have a cruel creator. Jesus dies on the cross 2,000 years ago and pain and suffering is still with us. I do not see your point. Again, these are just things you believe but upon investigation it is easily refuted.
@@leroyh8977 I am wondering, given the difficulty of suffering, how do you account for people like me? For example, last week, I spent 2 or 3 days with a pretty bad toothache (probably about 8 on a scale of 10). It hurt! Yet, every day, I was rejoicing in Christ my Savior. Moreover, if you would see me on my deathbed (hopefully, not until many years to come), I will be smiling. I know Christ. He bore the Cross, but I have the honor, the privilege, of bearing my own (small 'c') cross. I rejoice in my sufferings, as they bring me closer to Christ.
In 100 years, I will be pain-free, living a life that you cannot even imagine. Yet, where will you be in 100 years? It will either be having a blast in heaven or in suffering that is really, really bad in hell. God is love. Do yourself a favor and dwell on that thought: people are corrupt, but God is love. What would eternity without love look like? How could it be good? Yet, Christ died on a Cross so that you may bear your cross, that you may know Him, to love Him, to walk with Him, to overcome life's greatest pains and challenges with joy and singing. Christ died on a Cross so that you may know and love Him into eternity!
If you doubt what I am saying, I encourage you to check out my buddy, Richard Wurmbrand on UA-cam. He was tortured for his faith, yet had the overwhelming love and joy of God to sustain him. If you really want to know the truth about suffering, start with my buddy Richard. He and his wife, Sabina, were at my church and we just love them to pieces. Of course, that was years ago and it is all joy in heavens for Richard and Sabina now! I hope to see you there! Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
My favorite scene from "American Gods" is when a Germanic goddess is holding an Easter celebration and 10 different versions of Jesus show up. There's black Baptist Jesus, Pentecostal, Episcopal, Methodist, etc.
I think there's a lot more than 10 versions of Jesus in that scene
Looks like the Pauline version was more sellable (Romans 3:7()Acts. 27:36-39)(Acts 9:3-9, 22:6-8, 26:13-16)
not just any Germanic goddess, but Eostre, the goddess Easter is named after
"henceforth know we no man according to the flesh; yea, though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now henceforth we know Him so no more" (2 Corinthians 5)
@@andrewferg8737 We can only take God/Jesus Christ as he is. To some (believers - true born-again believers) he is a sweet-smelling savor, to others (unbelievers - the lost) he is a rotten stench.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
This world, Atheists and the devil (Satan) offer no hope.
I am an artist and despite being an atheist I find a lot of inspiration in the stories of the Bible. I recently made a drawing about creation according to Genesis 1, and my family (believers) find it strange that I drew sea monsters; and I had to explain and show them biblical quotes where Leviathan and Rahab are mentioned because they didn't believe me, it seemed too fanciful to them.
Could you imagine the artwork based on the angry tribal war god of the OT? Bashing babies' heads on rocks, genocide, SA, virgins being sold into "marriage" (AKA sex slavery). Although, the Renaissance did have some gory deptictions of some of the biblical scenes. A home with honest depictions of the scenes would be a gore fest.
He'd be like Marlon Brando's Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now, deep in the jungle of Laos, with His Montgnard Army.
I think we could AI to develop a picture
I’ve heard people say it before, but there should be a GOT style show based around the old kings.
I would prefer artwork on the Song of Solomon!
@@david2869 porn!
Brandon thank you for being kind but direct in your criticism. You have reached many more people and helped them to look at the bible critically without judgement of where they are presently in their journey.
Appreciate that!
I'm definitely with you in feeling empathy with this young guy, I am now 17 years in my "Mindshift" I descovered your channel when you very first started (although I can't see any book reviews on Brandon's Bookshelf, I have through watching your videos learned so much more about the bible that I was never aware of, I look forward to ever video you release, your personal study in secular bible study is fantastic, thank you for all your work you put in to your video's, I certainly appreciate all your work as it reinforced that the very hard Mindshift I did that took over 2 years was the right thing to do, I wish you well from the South East of England 🏴 👍👍👍
Appreciate that!
Lovely comment OP & I agree. (South West England)
If you only learning the meaning of the bible through this channel you be lead further from the truth and we know what happens when the blind lead the blind.
We can only take God/Jesus Christ as he is. To some (believers - true born-again believers) he is a sweet-smelling savor, to others (unbelievers - the lost) he is a rotten stench.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
This world, Atheists and the devil (Satan) offer no hope.
@@paulgemme6056 You're wrong. As the Holy Squoggolian Texts (May Nice Snacks Come To Those Who Read Them) clearly state in Vol 1, Stanza 4, Wordy Thing 7 of the Book Of Grumpians : "There is no god but Squoggle the Mighty, bringer of Nice Snacks, and Creator of All Stuff. And yea, Squoggle the Mighty, looked upon the lack of belief of some folks and spake thus, saying 'Ooo! Well, I can't get too upset at that, I 'spose I don't really manifest myself any more. You do you, guys!". What's your argument to _that_ eh?
If you say "Well that's just silly made-up nonsense", then I challenge you to _prove_ that it is.
@@beresfordquimby We are not sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners. If a man says he has never done wrong/sinned he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. Unbelievers hate Jesus Christ because he tells us the truth, that we are all sinners in need of God's grace and mercy. That's why he was nailed to the cross. Man hates the truth.
I know this may sound silly but when I was a Christian I thought it was disrespectful to write in your bible. After all it is God's word.
LOL my Bible looks like a combination of theirs. So much time involved in that. Time better spent elsewhere, but at least I know now.
I guess that means that the creators, printers, and "readers" of the Red Words are f^^^ed.
Limiting gods word to a book is like trying to trap satan.
@@iwilldi is this Gimli, again?
@@CatDaddyGuitar
You only need to replace words:
god -> causality
satan -> chaos
Once I realized I had created an image of God in my mind and then read the bible and discovered my image was completely off base and had no merit because the book described a totally different God than what I had believed him to be. Yeah, that was a life-altering moment. Great video!
if only everyone could come to that same realization.
@@MindShift-Brandonit’s painful and soul crushing…..
@@MindShift-Brandonhi sir, I'm 10 minutes brand new to your channel. Do you believe in any type of divine benevolent being? Do believe when we die, that we will encounter this being? Or?
Ty 🌻
@cherylwilliams4738 hey welcome! I am agnostic to a higher being. Based off the unnecessary state of suffering in this would, i would never assume it to be benevolent.
@@MindShift-Brandon Thank you for your reply.
Appreciate your honesty and transparency.
The reason I ask, is because I am in the middle of a critical health battle. I have been bedridden and in intractable physical pain of 4.5 yrs. and do not know how much longer I have on the planet. I consider myself a Christian, but am struggling greatly with my faith do to my current condition...my hope is fading fast. 😭
The irony of those worn out bibles is there whole groups of books that have never been read in it.
Amos? Is that in the Bible?? 😂😂
I used to take notes in my Bible, but I’d never show it off. The problem came when I started writing ✍️ more questions in the margins than connections.
You have all the answers.
Do you think that you have the ultimate truth, the ultimate answers for the human race? In fact, what kind of pathetic God could be understood by limited and biased human beings.
I hope that you will get to know Christ. He died on a Cross so that we might know Him. Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
[ The problem came when I started assuming that nobody had addressed those question during the past four millennia. ]
That's because you were never born again, born of the Spirit (Holy Spirit. You were religious. Religion will save no one.
We can only take God/Jesus Christ as he is. To some (believers - true born-again believers) he is a sweet-smelling savor, to others (unbelievers - the lost) he is a rotten stench.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
This world, Atheists and the devil (Satan) offer no hope.
@@paulgemme6056 But the Bible is flawed and immoral....
Even when I was an evangelical christian, I would've found this guy's room creepy AF!
Brandon, every video you make is a winner. Thank you for this. You’re spot on.
Too kind. Thank you!
Kind of reminds me of an obsessive fan that has all sorts of memorabilia in their room. They delude themselves into thinking that the celebrity loves them and they constantly imagine themselves as being friends with them and hanging out together. When they finally get a chance to meet their hero, to tell them how much they love them, the celebrity reacts with the words, “Who the hell are you?” Then tells their security to get this crazy person away from them. If the historical Jesus met this guy he would have no idea who this guy was and would be terrified that people worshipped his crucifixion because he never intended to die.
Wasn't it Bill Hicks who suggested that if Jesus did come back, he would likely have quite a few choice words over seeing renditions of how he died everywhere?
I just commented that I feel this young man may have mental or emotional problems since he is so over the top. I agree with you 100%
@@DavidRichardson153 He would say that these people are not my followers.
@@The-Doubters-Diary Yeah, it’s just bizarre. So cringey.
@@BluStarGalaxy if this guy met the historical Jesus he would call the ICE to have the brown illegal immigrant deported. 😅
Because if you take god as he is turns out he is a hypocrite a liar and a monster.
@@CarlHobson-zm2gk Found the Christian that didn't read the Bible
@@CarlHobson-zm2gk god sure was loving when he commanded genocide of all other canaanite peoples
That’s like saying a parent is loving for slaughtering one of their kids because the other wanted to be an only child
@@CarlHobson-zm2gk ah yes. The old "nuh uh" rebuttal.
Amazing
@@CarlHobson-zm2gkno this hatred is very old thanks to the atrocities committed in the name of that warmongering slave master
@@Dovahkiin0117 never met a butthurt atheist yet, who was mad about the Hebrews being slaves.
You are absolutely right. Every christian is by definition a cafeteria christians. No matter which denomination, they all pick and choose what to believe. But specially what to ignore or dismiss. Everything is the inspired word if the only true God, until is not. Then is mis translated, taken out of context, or is cintradicted by history, science, archeology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy or just common sense. As a former catholic I know of many people with whose museums in their houses. Full of posters, giant rosaries, statues, paintings, plus tv programs and radios tuned to some catholic station maybe reciting the rosary or singing hymns on the background. They have to be in a perpetual mindset of " god is with me, I trust god, god will protect me". Some even have stuff in their cars, lije s rosary or scapulary on their car mirror. Maybe little saints figures in their dash. No, I am not kidding. Maybe a Jesus face sticker on the headlights. Is unending. And is suffocating. That was one of the many reasons I left the faith. It was overwhelming.
I'm still unnerved about that oscillating fan shaped like Jesus that my aunt used to have in her living room. That thing was simultaneously funny and creepy.
Cafeteria and fanatical fundamentalists at the same time.
Cafeteria Christians. Perfect!
I'm a former catholic and my father occasionally still pushes holy items and images on me. Even when I believed it seemed stupid. Why would there be a difference between a regular image of Mary and one from Lurd or Međugorje? Superstitious nonsense, I thought, god is everywhere. Not to him thought, somehow in his mind god favours "magical" trinkets, the "holliest" the place/person you get it from the better.
@@Ircy2012 correct. One of the craziest things are the " holy" relics. The idea of magical powers within an object because it belonged to a certain holy person is ridiculous. But nothing in that department beats the holy foreskin of Jesus. It even appears as an engagement ring in a painting of st Catherine of Siena.
Believers can't take God as he is, because the Bible can't take God as he is.
The codex was authored in wake of a heated battle of influence of 1st temple mosaic commandments solomonaic era and the more
Assyrian physical lawisms & a more platonic macro micro dualism.
It's historical and that's why the gospels and Jesus was needed to begin with.
Everyone got all platonic idealistic forces faith and physical lawisms attributes that caused summarians to create so many different pagan god to begin with..
Why meglamanic like syncrab could exploit, plagerize and propagandize Everyone.
Our own population species darwin order makes us create a marduk basisn mind model for the same reasons just a different avenue.
Nasa math maps dark matter spirits in the sky the same way arguing over idealized time while methusela equation monds theory of lazy light is on deck to save the pagan myth & men we praise in 1900s structuralism
Yes, there is no "God of the bible" and then you have people who want to make Jesus God. Then trinitarians who take verses out of context and reject other verses etc. God created men in his image, Xtians created God in their image
@JopJio its absolutely God in the Bible very clearly detailing how he acted upon and moved through his creation while also detailing the corrupt programming of human bias ,the paganism they kept falling in & out of .
Explains exactly why a power greater than would come into Jesus to set the perfect example to fix that fallen sin within us all.
Triangulated judgment of by for thru = saved reborn renormalize rebirth reorientate selfless personal actor of servitude.
Identifying exactly where the equal measure of metamorphosis is encoded and we took those keys to the cosmos anchored textualism methodology objectivism = technological development to improve the human condition free all from old world pagan habits of enslavement and cast systems of serfdom.
We built our world upon those pillars and thru those facts we dig out code of nature & universe for ourselves.
Every feild or dicipline of study is from this eqaul measure 3rd and final frontier underpining all physics itself.
One paradigm away from the big finally as the great unveiling ends as we sense the universe in all its glory
@@SPL0869 what I meant is, in the bible God created men in his image
@@SPL0869um you should reread his comment again, I don't think he's saying what you're suggesting he saying.
That picture of Jesus standing on the water reaching in struck a surprising chord with me. That idea of him not only saving you from the water that you sink into, but him standing on it, doing the outright impossible in the process.
....I made that. I created a very similar image for one of my favorite stories, for two of my favorite characters, and it's just like this.
In my story, you have a girl with a rather awful childhood, leaving her with a bizarre and often backwards moral code. Someone who genuinely cannot understand why the people around her keep telling her that life is valuable and precious for its own sake. But through it all, she still _wants_ to be moral, and do what's right. She just has a lot to learn about what that means.
Helping her along in this is an absolute cinnamon roll of an individual, who is equally confused at the idea of genuinely wanting to cause someone harm, as it's unthinkable to him. He ends up volunteering for the job of both keeping her safe from others, and keeping others safe from her. The story focuses on her slow recovery, the moments of growths, the occasional backsliding, and which lines simply can't be crossed....in _either_ direction.
Then I came across a song. A song about, now that I think about it....having a mindshift :P
The lyrics give off the vibe of the singer protecting someone, waiting patiently until they're ready to change, being there for them in the meantime. It fit my story smooth as a glove, and was deeply emotional besides. Over time I started imagining a sort of music video to go along with it, of this girl's growth throughout the series, and the patient people who've helped her get to a better place.
In that "video", I imagine an above and a below, with the above sort of loosely representing a well-adjusted morality and the below being....not. She's immediately pulled from the above to the below by her abusive parent, who sought to control her and bring her down to his level. He got about 99% of the way to that goal before things went south on him. But that still leaves her in the Below, and the path back to the Above is a literal tightrope walk, a thin line going up and away into the distance. This is what she must walk to return to the good she's seeking.
But in the earliest stages, she doesn't even attempt it. She's content to stay where she is, thinking she's already doing the right thing, confident enough to argue the point to anyone who disagrees. She ignores the rope entirely, and happily so, walking off while her caretaker at the time looks forlornly back at it.
But as time goes on, and she surrounds herself more with better people, that discontent starts to show. Maybe there's something to this? Starting to eye the rope, maybe take a step out, but finding it too unsteady, too unsafe for her liking. Maybe another time. But now she's the one looking back at it, even as she walks away for now.
Well, that time eventually comes, and now she's ready to try to go all the way. But it's still an incredibly difficult task, with many feelings and many people that all threaten to topple her over. But with the encouragement of her friends, the guy included, she climbs. And climbs. And slips. And begins to fall. But he catches her, and sets her back on the rope, and now the two walk together, hand in hand, her carefully following the rope, him stepping brazenly on the open air at her side.
Doing the outright impossible, a sign of his goodness, as he helps her attain the same goodness in herself.
The song's beauty and message combines with my emotional attachment to these two goofballs of mine, and makes me easily cry every time I listen.
Apologies for the rant, but that picture made me particularly wistful. I can see so easily the beauty that man sees in that poster, because I feel much the same from that mental image of those two walking off into the distance together. I just wish the image of Jesus and the water didn't have so much baggage attached. With all I've learned about this religion over the years, the whole thing just feels inverted, like Jesus is the one beneath the water, standing upside-down, trying to convince you you're drowning so that you'll let him pull you under...I want to see it as beautiful, and I'm capable of it, but as per the whole point of this video, to get that beauty you have to simply ignore so much ugliness. And that's not a price worth paying, when you can obtain the same level of beauty outside of religion, without the need to worry about constantly ignoring the darker parts that you keep seeing out of the corner of your eye no matter how hard you try to look away.
Why would you ever cling to the rare and fleeting pretty parts of an abusive parent when you can leave them behind and find the consistent and long-lasting beauty of an actually _healthy_ relationship? Most likely, you'd do it because you can't escape, or because there's something there that you can't stand to leave behind....or because you simply don't know there's anything better out there. All the more-so if one of the abuser's favorite tactics is to slander everyone else and make them look infinitely worse. Why would you leave bad for worse? That's silly. But the only proof you have that it's actually worse...comes from the bad.
Don't let them drag you down with them. That rope is always there for you to climb back up, and there will always be people that will help you stay safely on it if you let them. Christianity gets one thing right: Your true home is in the Above. Just not the one they preach.
This is my favorite video of yours Brandon, because it’s a fascinating look into this sort of behavior. Also it hit’s a little close to home for I more or less had a similar mindset in certain areas of pop culture.
We don't need constant reminders that Superman is the hero of the story. Why do we have to be reminded how good God is? If he was good, that would be obvious. His actions would speak for themselves.
"Why do we have to be reminded how good" Goodness is??? --- Read the newspaper much?
@@andrewferg8737Yes, and many of the awful things happening all over the world are things that God have instructed his prophets to do in the bible, also, the news are mostly rage bait, there are many good things happening in the world, it doesn't make people watch the news though.
@@andrewferg8737the news is basically a Twitter troll now.
His actions do speak.
They say the exact opposite.
@@bluester7177 "good things happening"---
Goodness is God.
The constant focus on blood in my church was one of the things that started my loss of faith.
"the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing" (1 Corinthians 1)
"Each day Jesus, naked and bleeding on the cross, unveils God and destroys every false image of what it means to be powerful. Let us look to him and thus find the courage to look at ourselves, to follow the path of confident trust and intercession and to make servants of ourselves in order to reign with him.” (Pope Francis 2022)
"from that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?" (John 6)
Christianity has a lot of blood rituals they claim is evil with non Christians do it. Flesh and blood of Christ… wine and bread is the substitute in modern times, but got asked for animal sacrifices many times in the Bible. Not to mention killing first sons.
Blood magic. Pagan, archaic rituals.
@@leroyh8977 "Blood magic. Pagan, archaic rituals"---
Indeed.
Soviet Union deaths --- 61,911,000
Nazis genocide--- 20,946,000
Imperial Japan deaths --- 50,000,000
Maoist China deaths - 80,000,000
Abortions per day --- 200,000
"Each day, Jesus naked and bleeding on the cross, unveils God and destroys every false image of what it means to be powerful. Let us look to him and thus find the courage to look at ourselves” (Pope Francis 2022)
@@leroyh8977 "Blood magic. Pagan, archaic rituals"---
Soviet Union deaths --- 61,911,000
Nazis genocide--- 20,946,000
Imperial Japan deaths --- 50,000,000
Maoist China deaths - 80,000,000
Abortions per day --- 200,000
Thank you! Finally some one talking about the crazy blood worshipping songs which sound insane
I'm glad I looked through your back-catalogue to find gems like this.
Thanks for sharing that video of the man’s room. Though I cannot remember seeing in person another room like that, I have seen houses with many, many Christian objects, pictures, and knickknacks in them.
Brandon, your work is so good! Please keep doing what you are doing. There is such a dire need for the “light” to be shown on the realities of this religion. Thank you brother!
it‘s impossible to take god as he is because he isn‘t
My safe space❤ Hi Brandon!
👍
hey! thats so nice to hear.
If only I had seen this video 50 years ago! I bathed in the blood of the ‘lovely Jesus’ for many years. I was whole hog into it-church choir, catechism, alter boy, campus crusade for Christ, an ungodly number of bible studies, I even read through the entire bible-twice!, as well as developing an obsession with crosses! Yet never once did I ever come across anything that made me think of Jesus as something other than the pure embodiment of love and kindness. And the more of this image I constructed in my head, the less I was able to see the true full picture. It took years for the scales to completely fall from my eyes, and am so disappointed in myself that I never thought to ask some very basic questions of those leading me down this path. I truly blocked out anything that did not fit my idea of Jesus. I am embarrassed to have been so completely hoodwinked then brainwashed.
This was a brilliant video! Your clear and very authentic thought process combined with your ability to clearly communicate your ideas is a joy to behold! Thank you for these important videos. I hope they help others to dispense with this nonsense when they are young and can still lead a full life free of guilt and self-deception.
So glad I found your channel bro. So glad to be grounded in reality. Finally.
And btw...Great job on 1st podcast!
Hey, thanks!
It's really sad whenever I try to point this exact same thing to my Christian friend's they get all defensive and angry at me. They always say I'm angry at God because of men. What they won't and don't understand is how heart broken and sad I am because they refuse to see how brain washed and blind they really are. Another awesome video Brandon. Love ya brother 👍🏽 🤗
- I do not think that the g0d... thingie / something exists.
- YoU ArE AngREeeE wiTh gaaawwwd!
always makes sense.
Great video! As an ex Catholic we had lots of stuff to put around our house and carry. Statues of saints and Jesus and the rosary beads to keep on hand. The problem is Catholic devotions can be weaponized even against other Catholics if they don’t pray the rosary every day.
"...and it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him..." Why aren't there posters of this? Sounds like a rowdy, boozy good time.
@@donaldnumbskull9745 Jesus gets hammered, starts flipping over tables...
"Wait, what's he saying?"
"Dunno, sounds like" tongues "..."
Old-timey use of the word 'meat' there dang. Is that the Geneva?
@@caffetiel KJV
@@donaldnumbskull9745 that's super archaic even for the Jacobian period
@@caffetiel My understanding is that the language of the KJV was intentionally archaic, about a century out of date.
To paraphrase ` They don't believe the bible means what it says. They're convinced it says what they mean.` Social development carries on despite religious influence. In modern society where religious institutions don't have the power they once had to repress those views, it tends to manifest by more progressive Christians reinterpreting the bible to fit, while traditionalists rail against it. Until eventually the traditionalists jump on the reinterpretation bandwagon, and then pretend like it's always been interpreted that way. Easy example: Slavery.
Ironically Britain abolished slavery at the height of the empire, with the church of England being the dominant religion
The thing is that catholic has been interpreting the bible with a certain tradition at hand for 2000 years the "the bible used to be that it is fully literal until "traditionalilst"(which are christian evangelist, which isn't traditional as they do not accept apolistic succesion) were rebutted by the atheist and agnostic thinkers, and then apologists start to invent a new narrative, is a false one. The main way the bible used to be interpreted in the middle ages was metaphorical and allegorical and the alexandrite school used to be this way.
I think the only thing that has changed is the view on lgbtq and marriage by progressive theology, not slavery.
@@toonyandfriends1915
The orthodox are really into the mystery and feeling side,
I attend a church of christ, but I am for all followers of christ working together to build the kingdom and bring it around for all to see
I think Trump's Bible gone to fix the problem.(special discount if you order early)
TheraminTrees made a good point when he said Yahweh did the whole flashy sacrifice for narcissistic reasons. He could have done it quietly with no fanfare or formed himself in the body of a cow or goat to represent all the animals that had been sacrificed needlessly before. But nope, he had to make a big deal about it to satisfy his ego instead of just not having rules that require blood or just changing the rules. I'd LOVE if you guys could have an interview. I think he's a practicing psychologist.
I saw a post say one time, "If Jesus was a sacrifice then why wasn't it done on an alter per the rules?" Which I thought was a good point. No one says the victims of the flood were sacrifices.
I’m an Atheist and my wife and I were talking about the Bible and she took it out to show it to me. When she did some pages of the book fell out. I looked at her, smiled, then said; “It falls apart when I read it too.”
We used to sing that hymn almost every weekend at church. We sang it at my dad's funeral.
3:25 In the fantasy TV show "Carnival Row", the have a religion sort of like Christianity, but instead the "Martyr" died by hanging. So they have interjections like "God's Noose!"
Yeah, I had that thought many times when they bring up the "cross is a symbol of hope".. would you wear a noose around your neck as a symbol of hope? Hope not! 😂
Ive sometimes said, "do you love god, or do you love the idea of god?"
Hmmm, that's a good question.
Digging the closer up camera angle Brandon, allows us to see your sincerity in those windows to the soul 🦋👀
Do you think he believes in a soul?
I find it funny how they highlight the bible passages, like it a divine author like God shouldn't have a book that need to be readjusted damn Rubix cube to make sense of it
Yeah also funny because they’re basically saying one verse is more important or meaningful than others. If I were trying to be really pious and show off, I’d highlight every single verse and then show them my Bible: page after page of 100% yellow highlighting. 😂
I wonder how many people realize that 1. their sacred book is written in languages vast majority of believers can’t read 2. In the two millennia of Christian history, due to very low literacy rate, only a tiny fraction of believers could actually read the text themselves.
Now, honestly, was it smart of the omnipotent creator of the universe to choose a manmade book to communicate with humans?🤔
It is ALL so exhausting! I have been tired my whole life! Raised a Baptist/Assembly of god. Free now!
It's the god and Jesus he imagines them to be, not the way they're actually written in the Bible. All the uncomfortable, evil, immoral, illogical, impossible stuff, is just pushed aside.
Yes exactly
Yep. You point that out and they just say, "Well....I don't believe that."
@@suicune2001 "Being gay is wrong, it's right here in black and white." (You show them the scripture in the same book regarding having to unalive your wife if she's not a virgin on her wedding night) "Well, that's out of context - if we go to Matthew 1..." (then listen to the thousand excuses on why divorce and adultery aren't as bad as the Bible clearly states it is)
That’s the thing they can’t believe in the god he actually is, because the god he actually is is the true worst demon there is, was, and will ever be.
"not the way they're actually written in the Bible." That's a meaningless phrase. The bible is a mass of contraction, to say nothing of the fact that there are over 450 versions of the Bible and over 40,000 distinct Christian sects. NO ONE is an arbitrator of what is "actually written in the Bible." Such claims are on the same level as any claims made by Christians one does NOT agree with, because they are the same meaningless claim, based entirely on HOW one cherry-picks the Bible (and science) to arrive at what THEY believe it means to be Christian. Another "Christian" will dispute EVERY claim made.
This is why words like "biblical," "Christian," "Christianity," etc., have no real meaning - because they have NO meaning even among those who claim the religion.
Really enjoyed this video. One critique is on the Lion and Lamb poster: we just can't know what the poster is referring to. To make the assumption it is the Isaiah verse is a little bit of a stretch. I know you went on to explain the ambiguity of what it could mean, but you came back to claiming it must have been referring to the misconception of the Isaiah verse. A lot of great work was put into the video; it is definitely appreciated. Keep it up.
His scrawled on bible makes me think of Forrest Valkai's bible were he's highlighted all the passages where god does something awful by today's standards. There's a LOT of highlighter in there.
I think it would be interesting to have a similar Tiktok video where the teen emphasizes all of the swept-under-a-rug verses through bedroom art. Imagine the poster of a half-lion Jesus spattered as he stomps a wine press with the caption “I come not to bring peace, but a sword.” The comforter is embroidered with Psalm 137, proudly declaring “Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.” The headboard is carved with “Solomon: 4,000 horse stall or 40,000? Teach the controversy!”
It fascinates me that religion can bring people to see a blood bath, with positive symbology.
It's the purpose of all 3 monotheistic religions.
"religion can bring people to see a blood bath, with positive symbology"---
In the "Encyclopedia of Wars" (2004), Axelrod and Philips assign religious causes to only 7% of the conflicts throughout recorded history with 66 of those specifically involving Islam while all other religions combined were involved in less than 3% of wars. Martel's "The Encyclopedia of War" (2012) confirms a percentage of 6% for wars involving religion. The BBC's "God and War" audit asserts that 93% of wars are motivated by land, resources, political control, ethnic enmity, and a host of other secular reasons.
Soviet Union deaths --- 61,911,000
Nazis genocide--- 20,946,000
Imperial Japan deaths --- 50,000,000
Maoist China deaths - 80,000,000
Current Abortions per day --- 200,000
@@stevewebber707 well, it is a blood cult.
Yep. It kind of makes me want to write a fiction story about aliens with similar beliefs to Christians. Instead of sacrificing one of their own every week and devouring his body and drinking his blood, they'll sacrifice one of the enslaved alien species and use them as a substitute. They could even completely wipe out another planet, per their prophecy, and when the end times don't show up they think there must be someone they missed and just start going scorched earth everywhere.
Precisely 😂
Great video once again!
Gods have to adapt to the era. To prove that they are all knowing. They have to be seen to be on point when "the faithful" catch up with the correct and ethical ideology. And when "the faithful" think everyone else has forgotten how late to the party they where, out comes, "It was part of gods great plan." Or "mysterious ways" analogy.
Great video as always sir!
Thank you much!
It was so funny when I read a chapter from the Old Testament to my pro-life auntie where God promotes rabbis poisoning/cursing adulterous pregnant women. She tried to excuse it away saying the death that was endorsed in the Old Testament isn't endorsed in the New Testament. I asked her where did God or Jesus say abortion is bad in the new testament? 😂
Remind her that Jesus also said he came to fullfil every jot and tiddle of the OT and to separate family members
9:40 Where was God speaking to you BEFORE you lost faith? If you can't understand his will, blah blah blah when you don't have the Holy Spirit (which should always be there once saved) , then why didn't you when you DID? God has piss-poor communication skills.
the g0d gets outcompeted by 4-year-old humans. Whenever those cute smurfs and smurfettes want something, they say "Hello"
the g0d? Not even a text message ever.
4:00 - I'm already wary of people who deprive _themselves_ of sleep, but I'm utterly disgusted by anyone who deprives _others_ of their sleep... There's a reason why it's classified as torture... 🤬
God is merciful, perfect and unchanging
What about all the people he killed? What about his cruelty?
That was the old testament. He's different now.
You had me spitting my coffee with this one 😂. I know you don't mean to take the piss, but sometimes it helps to see the crazy world of Christianity. Thankyou.
The difference between the first guy and a superfan of marvel comics is that the superfan won't actively work against the rights of human beings, support nonsense like genocide, and are generally more caring, empathetic human beings because of the stories they've read, especially lots of the X-Men and Inhuman ones. *cough*
Ha. Sadly a very good point
you can't make general statements like this, how many charities did marvel inspire people to do?
and the supa hero geeks actually DO READ their books.
Your point at @13:30 is not silly at all Brandon, it’s right on the mark! Keep it up!
The lion has a cross superimposed on its face to add to the interpretation confusion
One of my favorite W bro
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who's there
Feeling unknown
And you're all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer
Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know I'm a forgiver
Reach out, touch faith
Reach out, touch faith
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who's there
Feeling unknown
And you're all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer
I will deliver
You know I'm a forgiver
Reach out, touch faith
Your own personal Jesus
Reach out, touch faith
Reach out, touch faith
Reach out, touch faith
(Reach out, reach out)
Reach out, touch faith
Reach out and touch faith
Violator is a classic!
Back when I was a Christian I went to a Bible study and the guy leading the study lent me his Bible. I opened it and saw it was filled with highlights, underlines, etc. I said to him jokingly: “You know Rick, if you highlight everything it’s the stuff that isn’t highlighted that starts to stand out.” Everyone laughed, and it was a joke, but there is some truth to it. Some people do get carried away with the annotations😂
We (right, wrong or indifferent) tend to whitewash the "improprieties" of those we idolize, and mental gymnastics is one hell of a drug. I think (I don't know for sure, my house was never raised religiously) the reason that this kind of Christian tale personal pride in a worn-down Bible is to "prove" that they "go through" the Bible on a very frequent basis (primarily the verses they prefer). It is the same with my copy of The Art of War, but I view that book in a philosophical way, rather than idolizing war, nor view Sun Tzu as some kind of weird prophet.
I like this laid back style video. Curious to know what you do for work outside of UA-cam. Thanks for the vid!
Repeat it until you believe it, that's how all sects work.
Really hit home. I had experiences with this just this weekend.
Nice you began making a podcast!
It’s a cool hobby
Thanks so much!
Fascinating video. It’s an interesting take.
When I was a Christian, I highlighted and underlined many verses in the Bible. I was one of those that believed the more used the Bible was the more religious or faithful I was.
Now, after spending money on expensive study bibles, I never will write in them and I will keep them in their protective boxes.
One benefit to not highlighting is you can look at the verses anew and with fresh eyes.
Here we go!
Thanks!
Yes, here we go!
Just started watching!
Thanks for also being here. :)
@@SeekingTruth2023 for sure...thank you
I read this in Mario’s voice.
I'm a believer and have seen the "showboating" in churches. The crosses on clothes, the cross ear rings and necklaces, flaunting the
worn out bible, boasting about feeding the homeless. I was in the holy land for 2 weeks and when I got back I was suddenly a church
"star". I reveled in my newfound glory for a few weeks until I slid back to my natural "nobody" status.
christians refuse to follow what their own books say. It has many verses that say we are NOT to Add, Take Away, or even Interpret the bibles! So what it says, it means.... whether you like it or not! Do not Add to it, do not Take Away the parts you don't like, and most importantly, do NOT Interpret his word. But most believers never bother to even READ those books...
This fits very nice with the whole idea of "Personal/Individual God" doesn't it? People believe what they like, hide what they do not and sculpt god to their preferred image. If you're feeling ironic, you can even say that they made their god "in their image".
Time to Mindshift!
I'm here for it 😁🎉🧠🤯
@@CatDaddyGuitar Holy crap it’s Cat-man. The hero we need and deserve.
@@BluStarGalaxy haha, more like the anti-hero... I guess Batman technically is, but I see myself more like Venom 🤣 j/k
@@BluStarGalaxy I'm only as good as the company I keep 👊🏼😁
I’m so proud. Godspeed.
Thank you for making this video. I agree that religions are man-made and we customise them and cherry-pick verses that comfort us.
If you listen to the lyrics to the song.... uiiiuii 😳 it sounds like an ancient blood cult. Praising the shedding of blood (ending an innocent person's life) to get forgiveness of the own sins.
Actually, it's quite disgusting....
"sounds like an ancient blood cult" except that it actually put an end to all historical blood cults...
@@andrewferg8737 I get your point. But I just can't ignore, that religion invented and commanded this kind of blood cult and now I shall see it positively, that this blood cult ended its blood cult...
Without the "good, loving and just God", who invented, commanded, requested the shedding of blood cult to somehow be able to forgive "sins" (commited by other people even) by shedding blood of innocent animals and humans, we would have never experienced this disgusting useless practice in the first place.... !
So, I am sorry, but I see it differently than you.
@@SeekingTruth2023 "invented, commanded, requested the shedding of blood cult" ----
"I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand?" (Isaiah 1)
"I was but a little displeased, but then they helped forward the affliction" (Zechariah 1)
@@SeekingTruth2023 "see it differently than you" ---
Are you suggesting that you are independent of the work and sacrifice of others?
From your mother who gave you life, the labors of your father who gave you sustenance, and life of every being you have consumed for nourishment? Or your role in sustaining others who depend on you?
Love is a creative act of relational interdependence. All action requires work. Work can be a joy or a torment. God is Love. Do our lives praise Him or nail Him to a cross?
Peace be with you.
@@andrewferg8737 Like I said, I get your point.
But why can't this allegedly allmighty, all powerful, all-loving absolute sovereign entity, you call good God, not just forgive, when someone honestly repents, asks for forgivenessand tries his utmost best to be obedient?
Whe does God need (even innocent) blood to be able to forgive?? Isn't he almighty in the end, and can not do that? Surely not. We are "made in his image' and we are we are able to forgive.
Or maybe he can - but he doesn't want to?
In case he is really almighty, he can forgive the small mistakes his fallible creation makes (I mean, he created them fallible).
He asks us to forgive, not only our friends, but even our enemies! That is his command (at least in the NT). If he commands his fallible creation to forgive - without blood involved! and I am sure you will say that his commands are all just, complete and good, right?
- why does HE not stick to his own law?
And forgive like a forgiving father! It is practically his own analogy.
Imagine a human father, whose child angers him by making a mistake (intentionally or even unintentionally) and the father says: Dear son, I love you so much! I will forgive you.... if you, let's say sacrifice your obedient friend to me. He has not done the mistake that I want to punish, but I need to shed blood, in order to forgive you, my dear son. I love you so much ...
What an awkward situation, what a disgusting behavior of this father right?
But, when the sovereign omnibenevolent God does the same, it is magically so loving, generous, graceful, merciful, worthy of utmost gratitude?? How strange....
And yes, I know the verses you provided.
But even these verses don't even remotely solve the problem, that this allegedly sovereign omnibenevolent and JUST God invested, requested and commanded this shedding for blood for him to be able to forgive.
Or do you want to say it is just to create humans fallible, give laws intentionally and fully knowing, that they van NOT keep them, and then say, in order for me to forgive you, you have to slaughter innocent animals for thousands of years, before finally requesting a human sacrifice to reconcile with his own fallible creation - which he MADE this way?...
I don't see any justice in that. Worldy courts and practically all societies see no justice in that.
But if God does it, it is magically just?? Hmm...
In the 80s and 90s in the UK, evangelical churches were displaying posters of Jesus that emulated the famous image of Che Guevara with the caption "Meek. Mild. As if." The purpose was clear: to portray Jesus as tough and hard, to appeal to "tough and hard" non-Christians. Meekness was seen almost as a sin, not a fruit of the Spirit. But, even though I was a Christian at that point, it made me feel that I wasn't wanted. I could imagine a "well hard" Jesus telling me that he didn't want a weak, soft, nerdy, specky-four-eyed poof in his Kingdom and I should piss off. So I did - to the Quakers.
Along the Lion/Lamb talk, there is another similar one. The "Morningstar" in Rev 22:16 is referring to Jesus. While the King of Babylon (fallen from grace) is also referred to as the Morningstar in Isaiah 14:12. Satanists also refer to Satan as the "Morningstar"... 😂 it's almost like as long as you worship either you will be saved
What if they're actually the same person?
The lion and the lamb artwork is because Jesus is called both the lion of the tribe of Judah and the lamb that was slain from thr foundation of the world. The duality is what that is representing. There's literally a popular song that references that and I assume that's why he bought that.
Seems like an interesting question, happy tuesday
Ah, I thought the picture was of Jesus under the water with and hand asking for help. I'm reminded of a quote by Voltaire (perhaps a little too heavy for the episode): "God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh." Another fine job Brandon, thanks.
I’ve sung that song hundreds of times….and in many different churches.
I was like this kid once. So I feel for him.I was thinking about how I was like him,and it made me wince.I'm just glad that, being 68 years old, I'm not caught up in that delusion anymore. Good video, Brandon. You sure know how to get a point across.
9:30
Yeah that idea always scared the shit out of me as a Christian because I never really understood the Bible in all of its bloodshed to be a good thing.......... The idea that I was not understanding the Bible because I just didn't have enough faith in that if I had more God would magically make the words pop out to me in a different way somehow........ Basically the more you believe the more results you will get is what it boils down to which is such a cold controlling tactic. I mean you tell a Christian you don't have faith anymore because you're not seeing God work and they tell you it's because you have low faith but in reality you've lost your faith because God isn't showing up. Christian's really have a way to make it all your fault don't they..... I see why Caesar in the Romans adopted Christianity as a control tactic for the public. You could just say if you're a bad boy that you go to hell and if that doesn't control people and they don't believe then you can tell them they're really bad and they go to hell and they can't understand the Bible because they don't have faith to begin with. What a trip
Back when I was a Christian, I used to make notes in my Bible. I did it to help myself understand and remember context to various passages and stories.
Ahhh, I had a customer that would say, "Praise God" and "hallelujah" and "Amen!" Every other sentence, all the time! As a believer at the time, I was embarrassed by her self righteous attitude. Yuck. Annoying, too.
@@CatDaddyGuitar
Amen! 🫢😏🥹. Ooops!
@@mr.c2485 😁👊🏼
The cross doodles are like Pitch Meeting Producer guy going, "Instruments of torture are TIGHT."
EVIL YWH DOING HIS GENOCIDE, TORT, RAPE, PEDOS IS TIGHT
To be a EUNCUH IS Tight
I love when he said Mary Poppins is TIGHT
He such a GENIUS
THESE EVIL PSYCHOS THAT FOLLOW THIS CULT
If Christians accept God the way he is portrayed in the Bible they'll realize that their God is a jealous & cruel God & not the God of love they think he is. Happy Tuesday Brandon!
Not "God of love". God IS Love. How does Love respond when their child is kidnapped, their mother violated, their son tortured to death, their invitation to education, happiness, and purpose are spurned, when Love in all its selfless goodness is called evil...???? Repent already and believe the GOOD news.
Thanks for being here!
@@andrewferg8737 God is not love he's the illusion of love. if his child gets kidnapped, his mother violated, & his son tortured? That's God's fault, Those things happens only because God allows it in the first place since God is omnipotent. he could have created a better universe but instead he created a flawed universe where evil thrives. & Your supposedly loving God sends innocent people to hell to be tortured for all eternity just because they didn't worship him.
@@MindShift-Brandon Happy to be here!
@@sauron69447 "Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?" (Isaiah 45)
"How quickly will you break the spine?"
Never. I take care of my books. Are you saying your daughter doesn't? Thank you for your time, I'll be leaving now.
I've never understood why people think of Jesus as kind and meek when the Bible portrays him as an unhinged, beligerent, creepy loser who's obsessed with blood magic and violence.
@alexritchie4586 Yes. He tore it up in the Temple during Passover. Calling the priesthood/pharisees "a brood of vipers" (a term which he took directly from John the Baptist). Telling disciples to sell their cloaks and buy swords. Saying he himself came to bring a sword, not peace. Or in other words to sew disunity. Whataguy, no?
and obsessed with lies about magic
I was in a church choir for six or so years, when I was deep in Christianity. I don’t really think back on the many songs we sang, but the second that video clip played of the people singing about Jesus’ blood, memories came flooding back of a song we sang that had very similar lyrics… it is so weird how quickly something can bring back memories you have not thought about in years… and looking back, it is so strange how we happily sang about death and blood and being washed in someone else’s blood… I understand WHY we sang about that, but now as an atheist and an “outsider”, it is just strange.
It's horrific, isn't it. Singing and praising about being washed clean through the torturous horrific death of an apparently blameless man. To me it is a sick A.F.
It makes complete sense when a person is not born again. Remember that John said.......1John 2:19
[19]They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
If a person is truly elected, he or she will remain. But it's clear that some are cut and others remain.
@@georgeaguilar6996 I apologize if I am misunderstanding the point you are trying to make, but…. If you are saying that I was never a Christian/born again, then you couldn’t be more wrong. I was born again. It was my life. But… I grew, changed, and I ended up deconstructing my faith and ending up as an atheist. While I am an atheist now, that does not mean I was never a Christian before. People change sometimes, and that is okay.
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Your so called "reasons" in those verses were written long ago by writers creating ideas specifically designed to make members of an ancient cult feel special in order to keep a strong mental hold on it's cult members.
Every religion does this telling those who obey and keep these specific beliefs and habits that they are special and will get great reward for their loyalty and dedication.
It's a con as old as cults themselves. Don't be suckered.
Jesus failed in the fig tree story. He could have gone the other way and commanded the tree to produce fruit. Wouldn’t that have been a more important message as he is the giver of life? 😮
I have the faintest conceptualization of why that story was EVER included in the cannon 🤔
The author should have said that the tree was in season, yet not producing viable fruit 🙄 That would have hypothetically made more sense ❤
Don't you think I am rationally espousing great ideas 🤔
12:18 I think he was trying to reference the phrases "Lion of Judah" and "Lamb of God" visually.
“Show me your bible and I’ll show you mine” 🤦♂️
what a sad thing indeed.
mine is longer. do you want to touch it?
@@MindShift-Brandon the Bible? Or…?
exactly, great video, I say some of those same things to people all the time
and Christians indeed constantly promote what they promote have the visualizations that they have , in part to Keep propping up their own faith,, it's almost as a way to prop up their own insecurities
also another funny thing is when you mentioned have an indentation of a cross on a penny or something that reminded me years ago I had a cross cut out in a penny and I shoved it on my key ring , so I just went over to my key ring and it is still there like seven years later I've been an atheist for about three years now lol I guess it's been on there so long I don't even think about it but when you said that it reminded me and I went and looked
Really, that sums up God's character; he is a blank slate that people would mold to fit their beliefs or convictions. Like, does God hate LGBTQ people? If a person found gay people icky, then surely their god would think so. Is God loving? Well, they would write God to fit their narrative.
We are the ones who created the concept of god, and therefore, we base this character on our own reservations and preferences.